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Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 75, 15 September 1925, Page 4

Professor Malladra, of the Vesuvius Observatory, ami two companions, recently performed the feat of descending into the crater of Vesuvius to a depth of about 1200 feet. This is a nc\ record in the exploration of active vo' canoes. These experts who make a bus ness of studying Vesuvian condition.-, arc of the opinion that the mountain will before long enter upon another long period of violent eruption. It has been found that by observing certain signs it is possible to predict eruptions pretty closely. A healthy tone seems to exist throughout the Dominion on the subject of afforestation and concerning the desirability of extensive planting in districts that arc not well supplied with growing timber. Trees that may be put to commercial uses constitute a national asset of immeasurable im-

portance. It is estimated by the Director of Forestry that adherence to the programme of development which has been mapped out by his department will have the effect of securing that in a period of thirty-five years from the present time the indigenous and planted forests of New Zealand will be capable of yielding ample continuing supplies of timber. In the history of a country thirty-five years arc, a mere bagatelle, and the Forestry Department will have justified its existence very distinctly if, through the results of its operations, it succeeds in placing the country in so favourable a position as the Director anticipates when the year 1960 is reached.—Otago Daily Times. Mr Holland’s latest attack on the I member for Christchurch North seems to be mere camouflage, used as a means | to evade the plain questions put to La bourites on the preceding day by Mr. Isitt, regarding their policy, as to whe- , ther they stood for repudiation of na- j tional loans, robbing mortgagees of all i money borrowed from them, whether | they condemned 44 g0 slow” as dishon- ; cst and subversive of true manhood, where the money for increased expenditure they advocated was to come from, whether they had abandoned their claim ! to industrial parliaments, or do they still want the present system of Parlia- '

mentary Government broken up and industrial parliaments established? The electors ■will take notice of the fact that Mr Holland did not reply to this questionaire, but merely indulged in doubtful personalities as a rejoinder. — Greymouth Star.