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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 5

During some -recent excavation ■work' f in London, four rusty, old trucks were found in air almost forgotten section of the old pneumatic tube, built, in 1860 to convey, mads and parcels from the General Post office. St. ilart-in’s-le-Graiid. to ICuston Station!. The method of propetin g the tracks was by means of suction as in modem tubular dispatch carriers in post ollfees .. and shops.' Put in 1876 the Pneumatic Dispatch Company, which provided the lorerunner of todav’s underground railways, failed through .lack, of public support. ••• ' ;ii : " r.v' 1 “It is usual to ‘blame our schoolsand' colleges ' for the -disfavour m which agriculture is held by our vnuiig people,” said Professor A. IS. Pitt in the; course >pf : an address to the Now. Zealand,Federation of Tea-; c.iiors ,at Auckland. ‘'Tl\e dintt to. towns is a problem coni routing every oiyilised. country to-day, .hut the; causes are not. educational. They are. rather the economic and social disabilities which, at present characterise the life of .the liirmer,,. What we want is a complete - revision of our system of agriculture, not- an. educational ‘bias’ that will probably result in’nothing. 1