PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 8

PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK

Mr. Justice Kennedy, our newest judge, has trade an innovation. He does not in summing up review the evidence, and. in his address to a jury confines MR. JUSTICE himself to matters of law. KENNEDY. Th« new judge is voung— was born in IS>B. graduating M.A. with first-class honours early in life. He is a Master of Law also with first-class honours. He has many other schola-tic distinctions, but they have not really dammed the genial current of hi~ soul. Hi* Honor, who practised at the Bar in Wellington for manv is a past-president of the Wellington Law Society and was examiner in law at' the University. It was dean towel day. Th<* Ih.'.v w v rker sat in her office busily writing. A -tep va< heard in the passage and there was a linht ?:iauow as of a man ...a THE ERROR. the glass partition. Her Lack was turned to the door, and she reached for the old towel. The dour opened. Still absorbed in literarv composition, she barely turned, and. handine up the towel, said: "Plea-e hanr the clean" one up.' "I beg your pardon!" -aid an astonished voice. She had handed the towel to an officer of the Royal Xavy attired in impeccable white. They laughed.

The fearful weather in the <>ld Country may make us rather thankful that we have no ice except to drop into cooling drink-. No one living remembers the ICE. * Thames being frozen solid. but hi-f.ry hath it that in the bad oil times the ancient river i...w and again froze >.. hard that bullocks were roasted whole on it and the unhanpv p.v, r t0 whom a freezing winter is disa-tVr" (and an empty stomach) gathered round and corded Tho-e quaint soul- who bathe all tin? v-ar round will possibly gu to the Serpentine- with their little ice axes to ii;ake a hole to -wim in, tor it is an appalling fact that there are such people in the Hub. Last .Tun* in Auckland a hardy citizen disported him-elf in the frigid water of the Waitemata. and -shiveriii" citizens passing by regarded him a- an amiable crank layin? up for himself rheumatism upon earth. But even then there were no icebreaking ships in the harbours to make a wav tor the ferries.

Recently reported from Northern Australia that the drought broke after some year* and that little children who had never \e-n rain a btttv T.T.. V T ere fri ? ht «ned. Part of A BILLY OF TEA the time the optimistic . Au.-.-ie hope- it will rain, and part ot the time he hopes it won't. Pluvius never gets into regular habits. Noted that a couple of Syrian hawker, have latelv b*»en drowned cros.-inj: a creek that p.-dblv thev had walked across dry <hod in previous" yearAnd that remind= M.A.T. There had bWn a drought. The country was as bare as the vrrW linoleum. Two mates camped by a dirtv water hole—the only water within a dav\. There was a thick, red 'cum n n the t.■•. ~-d'i pair of bullcK-k - -, horn* out Thev had boiled the billy and had drunk their tP ; and eatea their johnny rak«< and worn rrooniiw hymns under the shadow of a tent rlv \ police trooper jinzled up. "frdav bhAe- 1 '" h ai< V- "^ day! Get off and haVe a drink o' tea - tro °P* r go* off. -I'd rather hav* water,' he said, and his ha"- and t<*.k a drink. Then in a conversational rliann-r thtrooper said, pointing to the water hole- :: r pulled the corpse of a «vrian hawker oui of there last week."

THOUGHTS FOR TO-DAY. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward durins the time, and a courageous person afterwards.—Riehter • • m ».*■?* ♦" J et I ter v. disci S line for a man, in manv ways, to find thing* for himself than to have them put into his hands.—Kimjslev •• s - It is the effort of every blade of <ra** Fri P t 6 m ' ad ° W ****—** Alfred • • . th. CV m * Ind fiDdiD » fault *" it!l »I»« rest of the world, just try to make your own corner Of it as happy as you cam-Isabel < a.nerom Push on to know more, to do more to be