A Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 265, 8 October 1942, Page 4

A Thought For To-day.

The doctrine of unselfish love is a dynamic that enn heal any error—political, economic social, personal.— 11. Goddard Leach. Battledress for Women.

The manufacture of battledress specially for issue to women is shortly to be begun in New Zealand, according to evidence given heforo the Manpower Industrial Committee in Wellington.

School Equipment. A request that the Government should provide funds for the purchase of equipment in schools such as pianos and sewing machines is to be forwarded to the Prime Minister by the Auckland Education 'Board. Horse's Remarkable Intuition. The remarkable intuition of a horse, which found its way back "home" to Heathcotc from Hammer Springs after travelling nearly 100 miles, has aroused considerable interest among residents of the former district.

Avenue Trees Felled. The avenue of gum trees along the road between Rotorua and Whakarewarewa, known to thousands of visitors to tiiat district, is being cut down, despite many protests', one of which was made by the Minister of Internal Affaire (Mr Parry).

"Freedom of Bremen." The title of "Obywatel Honorowy Minsta Bremen" (Freeman of the city of Bremen) was conferred on a Polish bomber pilot belonging to the Pilsudski squadron at the operational breakfast after'a recent R.A.F. raid on Bremen. According to a Polish custom, if a man has "visited" a German city three times he is entitled to the "freedom" of that city. New Order in Europe. Earlier this year in the town of Zgierz, in Poland, the whole population was rounded up am] compelled to attend a public execution of Polish patriots. This is what an S.S. leader is reported to have said to the people of Zgierz: "You will all have a spectacle free of charge. In 1939, for one German killed, by one of you, wo shot ten Poles. To-day, for a single German, fifty Poles will be shot. -And in future, in any similar case, one hundred Poles will die. This will not he done at random. The aim of each verdict will be to exterminate, your leading class, the Polish intelligentsia." Rubber-Growing Effort.

Britain is experimenting with rubber growing at twenty places, ranging from Scotland, to Southern England, using the Bussian Koksygyz dandelion which is grown chiefly in the Ukraine and also in the Moscow area, says a London cable. The plant is a native of the Tienshan mountains ■where it grows at a height of 6000 feet. The seed has been sent to New Zealand, Australia and Tndia where trials are also being held. As reported in the "Manawatii Standard" yesterday, the Department of Agriculture is experimenting with the seeds and the research officers are hopeful of success. What a Man!

Mr Winston Churchill is tremendously admired in the United States. One American writing by the last mail from New York says in a letter "to a Wellington friend:—"What a man is Winston. We see over here that he has just lit back in old England after flying half round the world —and him nearly 68 years of age. Dinner with Stalin in Moscow; breakfast with the King of Egypt in Cairo. And how were we tickled over the yarn that in Egypt he was presented with a cigar twelve inches long. What a cigar! What a man! America is on her toes. The feeling here for England was ne-\-er better." Taxation on Income.

A discussion embracing examples of taxable and untaxable income provided an interlude during the hearing of a case in the Court of Appeal. The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) saidv that if a person won £2OOO in an art union it would not be income for taxation purposes. Mr H. P. Richmond (Auckland), agreeing, said that in that instance the income was a matter of chance and was not taxable ; but if a person placed a bet on the totalisator he was supposed to know the horses and skill entered into it, and therefore something was deducted by way of tax. Mr Justice Northcroft: "What about bookmakers profits?" Mr Richmond: "They pay taxation if they can catch them." Mr Justice Blair: "They make a return for taxation as bookmakers, but the income tax people don't say anything about it." Winnings at bridge and golf were also c?fced as cases where persons might have to pay tax. J