25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 100, 21 January 1933, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Hon. R. McNab as Prophet

(trom “The Dominion,” Jan. 21, 1&08.)

11l the course of an interview, the Hon. R. McNab said: “Great as is the Agricultural Department now, it will be vastly greater ten years from now, at the present rate of progress, and will probably require the energies of a Minister doing that and nothing else. I do not know of any department whose development is increasing like this one not even excluding the railways, because business with the latter is simply an addition to volume, while the Agricultural Department adds to its branches.

£ act that the names of the five warships that are to arrive in Wellington from Lyttelton to-day commence with the. same letter of the alphabet. They are the Powerful Pegasus, Pyramus, Prometheus, and Pioneer.

The action of China in defiantly disregarding Japan’s protests against the pioposed Hsin-min-ting-Fakumen railway is causing surprise and indignation in Tokio. Japan made three protests, the last one just prior to China signing an agreement with a British syndicate for the construction of tlie railway.

* *. * Both Auckland dailies devote much space to accounts of the recent eclipse ot the sun from members of the Flint Island expedition. “It was, indeed, a fi I P M n vn n A t c ! SP ? CtaCle ’” said Mr ‘ fleld, F.R.A.S., in speaking of the eclipse to an interviewer. “It was well worth Fn OI i lg / 0< l? mileS to see ’ uiore Particularly for those who had never previously seen a total eclipse. It was an aweinspiring sight, that could only probably be surpassed by a tremendous volcanic eruption.”