A VALUABLE BOOK.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 288, 9 November 1912, Page 2

A VALUABLE BOOK.

NEW ZEALAND. ITS HISTORY. COMMERCE. INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES. COMPILERS NOW IN HAWKE'S BAY. Brief mention was made in Thursday's issue of the "Tribune” to the visit to Hawke's Bay of Mr. H. H. !F. Stockley, F.R.G.S.. and Air. J. W. Bond, who are here for the purpose of arranging for the compiling oi’ the New Zealand volume of a series of books, to be published bv the Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Company of London, descriptive of the Dominions of trie Empire. To acquaint us with the nature and quality of the work (they intend to produce. Mr. Stockley has presented us with the South African volume, his firm has recently published. It is a large and handsomely bound book entitled : "Cape Colon}', Its History, Commerce, Industries and Resources.” I It has been edited by Mr. Somerset jPlayne, F.R.G.S., assisted by a (literary staff of specialists, and the j production of a work of so intensive j a nature may be looked upon as a i monument of industry. To give in(formation covering the whole of j Cape Province in the elaborate way i the compiler has done must have ’ been a feat of very difficult aehiev(ment. Practically the whole Prol vincc has been traversed twice over, j once with the compilers, and a secfond, time with the photographers. The information has been gathered jby personal calls on farmers, merI chants, and industrial concerns, the country journeys involving many thousands of miles of travel, and the expenditure of a large amount of raoney. The first-hand information thus” carefully collected, and preI sented in sumptuous and attractive (.form, with all the aid that lavish land artistic photogiaphic illustra- | tion can give, will not only place the country before the world m a clearer and more favourable light, and in truer perspective than ever before by fully revealing the general grandeur of its scenery, ami the magnificence of its resources, but will ipso facto render most material aid in its social and industrial progress and development. The woik is fully illustrated with photographic representations of places and scenes of general interest in which everything that is typical either of the history of the colony or of the public institutions is included. The fauna and flora of the country, its forestry, viticulture, ostrich farming, beekeeping, and the sheep, cattle, and poultry industries are all admirably delineated. To all farmers, sheep and cattle rearers or horse breeders, the book will be found especially interesting, as its pages are full of illustrations of stud stock on the most important farms, and detailed descriptions of them. To realise the full worth of this great work one has only to glance at its pages, and the publication of the New Zealand volume will he of the greatest value to the Dominion’s trade and resources. : _ It is Messrs. Stockley ami Bond’s intention to arrange that every farm and industry of importance in the province shall be visited by the compilers, and it is hardly necessary for us to urge that they be given ever.v assistance in the work they have in hand, it being so manifestly to the interests of the people here to supply the most reliable information available for inclusion in the volume. “ KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT;" 11 M hen »ou’ro in a racing car at speed, keep your mouth tight shut!” This is the advice given by “ Fighting Bob ” Evans of the Studebaker team, whose successes this year have stamped him as the brightest star of the lightcar pilots. And it is advice which wili be endorsed by ever}' experienced race driver. “ Opening the mouth makes inhaling easy, it is true. But the extreme speed of a motor-ear will keep you inhaling for a long time after you want to stop, if you try to do it through the mouth. The pressure will cram your lungs, mouth and air passages so full of air that you will choke and strangle. “ We had a Studebaker-Flanders out one morning this spring, on the Santa Monica course, for practice. The wind was blowing 50 miles an hour, according to the weather reports. On one straightaway vve faced it squarely. The gale pulled us down to a speed of 75 miles an hour where, on cilm days, we Lad been doing 85. But 75 added to 56 — the speed of the gale—gave us a head wind of 125 miles an hour. Some wind! Why, the roar in my ears made them ring for days afterward. The pressure on my shoulders was greater than two men could have exerted. My cheeks pushed back on both sides so that my lips hurt. “Charley Bamesburger, my mechanic, leaned over toward me and started to say something. The next moment he doubled up and nearly fell out. I thought he was sick and stopped the car as soon as I could. When he got through choking and coughing, he said he’d been through all the torture of drowning. , “ He’d started to make some remark about the weather. I guess, and the pressure of the wind had simply inflated him almost to the bursting point. He tried to gasp it out, and got more air jammed down his throat. He was frank to admit that I saved his life by stopping when I did. “ Of course, that was worse than one usually gets. All the same, you will notice that the only time in a big road race when the driver and mechanic of a car do any talking is on the turns, when the car is slowed down. At anything more titan seventy miles an houi a man takes chances wl |n he opens his mouth. Above ninety miles an hour the result is sure to he serious.