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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 January 1930, Page 7

The secretary of the South Taranaki Automobile Association (Mr. W. G. A'alkley) has received telegraphed ad- 1 vice that the Foxton-Levin Road is still flooded. A passenger by one of the South Island expresses early last week told a “Timaru Herald” reporter of an alarming experience which befel passengers in one carriage. When passing through Middleton a loud report was heard, and the next instant a piece of iron, seven inches in length, 'smashed through the carriage window. It then cut through a passenger’s boot and inflicted a nasty gash on the ankle. It was not known whether some irresponsible. person committed the act or whether it was caused unwittingly by several men who were working in a shingle joit. Some prominent men in world affairs have visited New Zealand in past years. Their methods of speech and their general deportment in tne delivery of public addresses have, of course, been caried, and probably no two have adopted similar methods. It is safe to say, however, that seldom has a speaker of similar type to Viscount Craigavon visited Dunedin, (says the ’’Star”). He has none of the devices of the orator; no working up to dramatic climaxes ; no arm or body actions; no peroration. His language is simple, his voice clear, and ho has a subtle sense •of humour —the whole of his methods, in fact, are more conversational in their character than anything else. His address on Saturday was. moreover, marked by evident frankness) and sincerity, and that it had made a striking appeal to his hearers and was plainly manifest by the loud, and spontaneous applause which broke out- at its conclusion.