AN OLD CHURCH.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 18 March 1932, Page 13

AN OLD CHURCH.

nil uiTox or th* tress. ■^4— There is obviously a mistake in given for the opening of the t*'*a9dp n church of Arowhenua Pa. ft states: "On August 29th, building was officially opened *. W. J. Stack," etc. If this correct date, then the church re lasted for only forty-six tead of sixty-six. A reference Stack's book, "Kaiapohia," "ify the date. 100 for pointing out the error ie fact that 1 was Vicar bf rom 1883 to 1892. The AroShurch was closed, and no wre held in it for several 1883. The Maoris were at jjSc?® eitlier lapsed Christians or 'JagS?®!*- . I wrote to Bishop Harper 40 °P en the church, but aiMJW that he'had "no authority HHjJwtion/' and tlmt the church "built for tho Maoris by W * time I was able to start a IjgHjr «»00l for tlie Maori children, -sS£s*r *' ie ''hief men the Pa ' nHS- ~se c^urc ' l as is3g9Pj Ca ® Church may use it on ttornings. Wesleyans in the and Salvation Army in HBi® M 1932 A ' HAMiLTON - Bfcj COSTS AND EXPORT ""M or THE PBESS hHshSM* favour me with a few a most extraordinary •Tor due to mis-use of issued liy. the Governn• Taking 1928 as a are given as having

decreased 9.3 per cent, and export prices 42.5 per cent. Far and wide the idea has caught hold that these two percentages have a relationship. That is not so. There are many sets of costs in the total values of exports, besides farming costs. Many of these costs, freight, killing, freezing, slipping, which have harxlly come down, amounted to nearly all the cost of certain farm products in 19/8, and it is c.uite wrong to put the reduction of quite wo 42.5 per cent.; that s r the reduction over the whole value of exports. In altogether too many cases and probably over the whole average of farming, the reduction of 42 5 per cent, in exports completely wines out farm profits. There may still be profits in dairying, but the graziers' fosses probably more than eliminate da Kher P SrS'is to take imports-the \ which New Zealand receives real return whiciw Zealand iceSi " E »Pot corts, ior - t ' l e j j„ties the latter having charges and duties, New Zea]and reecTves imports much cheaper than the Miery^ Which convey the above incofreoUdeaa. are q-t^the V.ewspapers alniost e y omm . gs . on used by the Bjjwnj intrusion on trust you c n °" s^ fi , ie._-Yours, etc., your space as just.^ New Zealand Farmers' Union, Auckland, March 15th, 1932.

A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY. TO THB EDITOB OF THB PBS33. Sir, —It was with, deep regret that I read in The Press of Friday the 11th the sad tragedy of the great outback of Queensland, and the verses sent along by your Teniuka correspondent are indeed very appropriate. I wonder how many people there were in Christchurch, who, upon opening their paper last Friday morning, trnd reading tho sad announcement of this unfortunate man's death by thirst, could realise the depth of this tragedy. Amongst the many* thousands in New Zealand who have been to Australia, a very small percentage would be found who have left the cities, and the pleasanter parts of the country around the coast, and travelled in the great out-back. When I read of this tragedy of thirst I was sorry, and my sympathy was the sympathy of experience, for I have travelled over many hundreds of miles, away on the great out-back tracks of Australia, and my long, and lonely trails have taken me to within about two or three hundred miles of this same Boulia, near where this poor man died from thiist. Very few travellers are ever seen in this part of t ie Continent on account of the long stages to be crossed without water, and when I was passing through. I was continually warned to lose no time in getting to the next station. I was able to

cross over many long waterless stages through having my bicycle with nte, although there have been times when I have walked day after day anc J pushed my bicycle with its heavy loau through the soft sand, and on those bad, sandy patches, I have sometimes looked with uneasy feelings on m y diminishing stock of water in the water-bag, and wondered if 1 would be able to get through to the next station. On ono occasion, when crossing from Perth, I purchased a waterbag at Coolgardie, packe'd it , aw . a y among my clothes, and carried it I°' nearly two thousand ftiles unused, ready for the time when the old o ne would be of no further use. My °' c ' water-bag developed a leak quite ,in " expectedly, 'and caught me at a bad time, like the sad case we have just read about, and when I stopped to have a drink I lifted an almost empty water-bag to mv lips, and I had yet many miles to "travel to the nearest water. When I reached there. 1 found that the vvatar-hole had nearly dried up, and stuck in the mud around the remaining drop of water, were the remains of a couple of sheep, a stray bullock, and a couple of magpies. Fastening my billy on the end of a long stick, I managed to get a billy full of warm water and mud, and lost no time in thinking about polluted water, but had a good drink, fillet! up my new water-bag. and also put a good supply in the old one. and set forth once more. Yes. my sympathv is the sympathy A>t experience. —Yours, etc., AUSTRALIAN SUNDOWNER. March 17th, 1932.