NOTES BY THE WAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4528, 7 April 1934, Page 5

NOTES BY THE WAY

(By Rambler.)

Sometimes a woman forgives the past because of the present.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are given civic receptions.

The New Judge for the Supreme Court Bench will be known as Mr. Justice Fair. Most appropriate.

A man told the Farmers’ Union that he knew all about the monetary system. He must be one of the wonders of the world or a .

Mr. Bernard Shaw may not be getting any wittier in his triumphal tour of New Zealand, but he is showing a more humane frame of mind.

A new industry has been found for Australia, the export of apricot kernels for the manufacture of cosmetics and explosives. A case of “powder and puff.”

Britain’s financial year ended on 31st March; New Zealand’s unfinancial year ends at the same time, and. it’s time that the Minister of Finance let us know how much we are short.

I think that things are really going to improve.' Mr. Savage is talking about the possibilities of an early election—he wants the Labour Party to be the one that lifts New Zealand out of the depression—by means of better prices for produce.

A certain grand lodge session. has passed a number of resolutions regarding the liquor trade, including one urging a heavy duty on ingredients for home brew. As far as I know, it has no branches in this district.

The American ex-millionaire Samuel Insull, badly wanted in the land where he amassed his former wealth, was spirited from one country to another, until the Turks have held him to hand him over to Uncle Sam. No one can imagine Samuel singing “Home, Sweet Home” with any enthusiasm.

The mysterious vessels roaming round the north of Australia are said to be poaching. Certain Australians,' as you know, have been wondering if Australia was to be the toast and the Japs the yellow yolk—with precious little white. They even thought the egg might be “scrambled” and then it would be all yellow.

The British surplus, according to the New. York Times, is going to prejudice the case for war debt revision. Of course, the heavy taxation to gain this end does not come into the matter —nor the envy of the United States.

A high Nazi official states that Germany does not want war because Hitler saw war from the ranks. It’s a pity that the ex-Kaiser did not see war from the same point of view in 1914. Anyhow Hitler will take every care not to be in the ranks in any future outbreak.

I believe that Rear-Admiral Byrd’s lonely vigil in the Antarctic is really for the purpose of a rest cure and', some quiet thinking without the \'' worries of national deficits and sur- ’,

pluses, strikes, go-slow policies, rumours of war, Jingoism, quotas, Jardine’s disappearance, unemployment, graft, revolutions, and Bernard Shaw’s quizzical comments on world affairs.

‘‘A Hitler comes once in a century and the Nazis have begun to construct a State that will endure for 1000 years,” states the German Minister of Propaganda. I wonder what Mussolini thinks of this announcement. If Hitlerism is to endure for 1000 years all I can say is that Europe is in for a very unhappy time.

There are many superstitions in regard to the building and launching of vessels. Probably the prolonged cessation of work on the giant Cunard liner would prejudice it in the eyes of many as being a hoodoo. That’s why a band of pipers playing Scottish march tunes led the first contingent of workers to the vessel tc exorcise the demons.

Bernard Shaw has been more Shavian, whatever that may mean, in Marlborough than anywhere. Such statements that New Zealand went to war out of pure devilment I suppose are Shavian —so Shavia'n that on Gallipoli and elsewhere our army fought to some purpose out of this same pure devilment. But he forgot himself when he said, “The nations are becoming more independent of one another —nevertheless, the heed of dealing with one another is increasing.” That was a bad slip. Why, the saying of it is no more usual than the acting on it is unusual —ahd furthermore, Mr. Shaw, it isn’t Shavian, it isn’t unduly smart, and it isn’t unduly untrue!