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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 7

A neat poser was put to the Marlborough College Board of Governors by the principal (Mr. J. Stewart, M.A.), reports the express. Mr. Stewart said a Sydney firm had forwarded, according to order, some lenses. They were of Japanese manufacture and the price was somewhere in the vicinity of £2 os. Some time later the order was duplicated by mistake, and this time the lenses were a German product of excellent quality and splendidly got up. Their price was £1 10s. “Now. I just wondered,” remarked Mr. Stewart, “what attitude the hoard would have Hkecj me to adopt had both sets of lenses ajrrived at the same time and I had been compelled fio retain one set and return the other. Should I have kept the infinitely superior German lenses and returned the Japanese, or kept the inferior article because the other was of German origin ?” Silence reigned in the meeting-room for a.time, and then Mr. F. Mogridge announced that he would sooner support a German firm than a Japanese any day! Dr. W. E.. Redman said there was no doubt that, although one wished to be patriotic, the German, especially in the ease of optical lenses, produced an article equal in quality to the best British product and at a lower price. The Japanese were, at best, copyists and their imitations were usually poor.