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Murray, Mosley, Sheppard Ltd. Telephone 732 133 Hereford Street Cheap Wheat Farm on ACRES, in excellent heart; 120 acres fallow for wheat, 100 acres 280 ntr grass. Price only £32 10s. per acre. Terms: £2500 cash. Splendid Sheep Farm ACHES, Southland, all in tussock. Carry 1 ewe to acre. Situate 5 miles from good centre. Price only £7 per acre. Easy terms. ffil l take small holding as payment.

01CE TO ASPIRING M.P.'S. K OT» OTPS COB3E3POKDEKT.) v LONDON, March 17. «, Lloyd George, in his address to JLtB as Lord Rector, o' Edinburgh Jversity, gave "A Few Random • • ■ of Politicians and Their pjfgculties. 1 b qualities do you require to Mere success in politics? Like any \tt great career, politics demand inImeence, insight, imagination, con»ntration, industry, uprightness m life /conduct. You may win popularity meritorious gifts, but you can retain it without real quality. 2?if I were to choose the gifts kith tou specially need more in polite than any other pursuit or profesr. i would begin with courage. T' ig no vocation which makes a 2 constant draft on courage of «rv kind, moral courage, prompt but most of all the courage rtSUs. A political career is full $ disappointments and hurts. Polllinns work in an atmosphere of Km and censure. There are men " aee d and organisations maintained "the purpose of disparaging, finding dt, and condemning politicians, nei principles, their words, their acevery deed and phrase is Smtlnised by trained eyes with microLie minuteness, and blemishes, if j o { exaggerated, are at least presentSin the dimensions in which they lear through the microscope. There Z Borne men who attract Z* criticism than others. EveryLi they say, everything, they do, ot everything they fail to say or Mg lect to-do, is promptly fastened moii. Some could not walk across a jolf course on Sunday without incesLt reproach; others might tee their tall on the church steeple with hardly • nmtmur. I have seen men who had Led death and torture in every form M and shrink before ridicule, for life 'corrosive shafts of ridicule burn M Maw into our very tissues. The ooorpolitician has to endure it through jjft and when he reads of his mistake jnd: of the use which is made of it ha knows he will never hear the end of it There is no profession which is (juried on under such exacting, irritating; and mortifying conditions. If wii are.wise you will discount both (jtessive praise and captious blame, aid arrive at a working balance. Thus jflne oan a politician preserve his amty ( of- mind. There are not many flat get right through. To be a suetestfiil jnember of Parliament you must * only be a good speaker, but ako i'»ood listener. Good speaking is not ibsbliitely indispensable _ to _ political ifeesa. Trusting to the inspiration of tte moment is a fatal phrase, upon ,iich ip'any promising careers ha.ve teen wrecked. The surest road to initiation is preparation. The more ltloble you are naturally, the harder jw ought to labour. A natural gift k a fatal snare for the indolent. I brilliant mop. caught W arrested by their own talents. Have-seen many men of undoubted tinrage and capacity fail for lack of hJtutry. On the other hand, I have Mi, many a clumsy but persevering t waddle successfully to the 11''The mastery in speech can only. \ Reached by mastery in your sub'l Do not play a selfish game. jPt calculate too closely whether, Si your personal point of view, a lis worth doing. Don't be always zoning "the attractiveness of a by the amount of publicity it [s youi If you always weigh effrom the-point of view of its ertising value you will soon find ij the . . general public will in jlend (Tiscover what is only adveritjncnt. What iB. the. test of success olitics/-".Office, position, or decoratl No'. The only test of high !M in a political life is service, iffice of out of office your motto Jd bp not "I get on" but "I le." To sum in all up he j feels a call to serve his irttry and generation in poliiis seeking a hard but a high voca.•A- There is no other career except |wiii which a man who is fitted for fluid devotes his energies to its tasks do more for mankind. . miniature engine, the power of 1 was generated by . the sun's ~ TOb "successfully demonstrated in of the College of the f of New York by Bernard Gross- |( a graduate. A parabolic copper for caught and focussed the rays i'l test tube of water, the heat .nng the steam,, which in turn oper- | the tiny motor at a high speed. Jsman said his invention could be flm office buildings to provide light, §pj and power, while the sun motor •IP be utilised, to operate motor | WANTED KNOWN. is- * Ittj. H. STEEL has REDUCED the jt_PKICE' of MEAT to Rook Bottom for KT CASH. and as we have only a ehprt Mv i! estgjrah is dear at nny price; the beßt is g* in the end. And do not be ffifwd to buy inferior quality or rub- ?« ? Patronising F. H. STEEL rely on getting the Cream of S?"? J7- Customers in City or Suburb* gloa Daily for Ordorß. P®* *nd Telegrams promptly attended f QooJj a Speciality. The annual w*chea half. a million pounda. ftthty sold speaks for itself. 59290 JffiLTON-GOVEBNOR'B BAY-TEJD-DDIGTON MOTOR SERVICE. daily time-table ; a ®-. Allandale 8.5 r ,!o ' *•»•* e -». »»*.Jttelton 9.80 a.m., Rapaki 9.60, "Ifrn 10*50 Allsndale 10.80, air. Daily—Leave Tedrlinff* tor 1 ', 3 ;, 10 AuidSraSS, y 3 - 1B ' R *pa£i *.5, arr. Lyt- • IfltUlton at 4.35 p.m Rapaki 4.50, eVm m °' , "'"dale 5.25, arr. I tJt r^ uited ) 5.45 p.m. » -tnpt bj arrangement. 'Phone . C. P. JONES, Proprietor. ? C *,S TT'S MOTORS. Royal mail contractors. to HANMER SPRINGS. itCHuiir.n to SPRINGS. to haxmer rpniNGs. to Tr H . A NMER SPRINGS. < "nd V° lie d Service Hotel i Io Uriet Ottice, at 9 a.m. AI AU, Mondays, Wedjfebi..;, ' Culverden depart on art«W«cWch Car and T |. ain Office. Thos. Cook and Motors. Durham 1 W72, U76, 1392,

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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17748, 27 April 1923, Page 15

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Page 15 Advertisements Column 1 Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17748, 27 April 1923, Page 15

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