ANGLING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 12

ANGLING.

Wednesday saw the opening of the season, and scores of devotees of the art and followers of the gentle and informative Izaak Walton were out to try their wits against the subtle trout. All apparently had a good day, though so far no one has put in his figures or described the size of his largest. BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION. STATE EXPRESS HOUSE. In the history of commerce and art no event lias excited such intense interest all over the world as the colossal Exhibition now in being at Wembley. The inception and execution of this vast undertaking so soon . after the Great War is a remarkable tribute to its men of business. State Express House, within a few yards of the handsome British Government Building, is universally recognised as the greatest and most artistic effort made by any commercial undertaking at Wembley.

Standing 150 ft high on 16.000 square feet of space, State Express House is ! the first building to arrest attention when approaching the grounds bv road 1 or rail, daylight or dark. Its power of attraction is not, how- • ever, confined, to its exterior. One of : the large rooms inside the building is devoted to an interesting series of \ technical exhibits, while in the main ' hall the attention of visitors is further ! held by a demonstration of some of the processes entailed in the making of 1 State Express No. 555 cigaretes by * hand —one at a time. ’ j Here the sojourner from overseas is ] heartily welcomed, and the sight of the ( universally-known name of State Ex- ] press immediately and familiarly re- } minds each vnstor of the good tilings - London sends to him in New Zealand. ■ The Chinese believe in making “the I ( punishment fit the crime.” The liar,! : for example, is beaten on the litis. 11 The Rev. Reuben Richardson, who has t recently returned from a nine years 7 stay in China, in mentioning some of i the horrors of the land, referred to ; this, also to the common practice of t susoending criminals by the thumbs, ] and that of placing a kerosene tin i filled with burning charcoal on an of- i fender’s bare back. The rack, he says, } is employed for the purpose of getting 1 information out of reluctant people, c and it seldom fails—even if the inf or- f mation be manufactured by the tor- t tured man on the spot. " ]