Page 2 Advertisements Column 2

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 2

HAVE A LAUGH RUSH DELAY A manufacturer went to a War Office department with a proposal for new factory methods. Months passed. He went again. The clerk who received him shuffled through filing cards, prowled about for some time in and out of various offices., Finally he came back. He advised the manufacturer to go home and wait patiently. “You see,” he said, “everything takes so much longer now, on account of the emergency.” MARK OP RESPECT A meeting of bookmakers, jockeys, trainers, and owners was held to arrange a country meeting for the patriotic funds. At the end the chairman, a portly bookie, arose. “Gentlemen,” he said, “will you all stand while the Grand National Anthem is run.”

ATLANTIC CHARTER RECOGNITION OF GREAT FUNDAMENTALS “Fundamentally there are great principles of right and wrong—freedom, truth ,and justice. “Freedom involves the right of every nation to work out its own life in its own way subject to the interests and rights of other nations, but in full independence subject to that condition” (said Viscount Cecil in a recent speech). “That has been recognised, among other things, in the Atlantic Charter. The great principle of truth is equally important for international life. We must have an obligation to fulfil a promise made; an obligation to obey treaties, otherwise we cannot have any effective agreement with other countries. “Then we have to have a conception of justice as a basis for international relations. A new order must be based on those three principles if it is to be successful in promoting happiness and establishing an enduring peace. There are a good many people who think that, if we have a new order in each country, a new economic order and so on, they will have peace and happiness as a natural result. “I would ask them to consider what kind of principles would be generally accepted by some of the great countries. tVould they be able to draw up a new economic system equally acceptable to Russia, America. China, and the British Empire? “I am all for setting up the highest standard, but we must, first establish a system of international cooperation to make it possible for nations to settle down in relative security.”

For all engineering work, Christion and Co. Ltd., the Engineers.