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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12199, 10 March 1934, Page 2

The general interest in. schemes which propose the amendment of the' present social system was exemplified last week, when Major Douglas ad-. dressed a public meeting in Hamilton, j A party of currency reformers- at Oltorpire, over 40 miles away, speed-; ed up the afternoon milking in order, to jattend the lecture, and. duly listened to the exposition. After the meeting the homeward journey began. Fortified by supper at Cam' bridge, they, began the long trek over the Tirau hills, to he overtaken’ by disaster at midnight in the 'shape, of a punctured tyre. This quite ordinjary mishap was made serious- by the fact that they had omitted; to' include in their tool equipment the; key spanner for the spare tyro, and they were miles away from the nearest garage. They finally limped homo at 2.30 a.m., and, as they had to b®, up again.at four o’clock to ‘“start on .the coiws,” their time for slumber' was very brief. However,. they “made; it”, and though-somewhat dreamy the next day, they were unanimous in declaring that “it was well worth-