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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7061, 21 January 1933, Page 6

"Depression, like winter and cloud, is essential for the progress of life,’' said Professor Macmillan Brown in his address to tho annual meeting of tho University Senate. "When we get plunged into the gloom of some great depression wo are apt to count it as only evil and productive of evil. We forgot that if wo had no seaffon but summer jvo should never be able to raise the crops that aro so essential to our life. Cloud is as necessary to our continuance on this planet as sunshine, not merely because of tho rain or snow it pours down on tho earth, but becauso change is one of the bases of health, even change for what wo think tho worse. We aro born and bred on a planet of changing seasons and conditions and the cessation of such chango would mean disease and^ deMky

Sir Charles - Kingsford-Smith was speeding through tho air to New Plymouth. All over New Zealand listeners were tuned in for reports of his progress, and in a private hospital in Christchurch the most important man in the world, for five other patients, lay back in 'his bed with tho headphones on. His sons had fixed up. a receiving set for him to make easier tho long and weary hours that pass so slowly when one is in hospital. He was the only source of news for the other five patients in the ward, and as each announcement camo through ho repeated it aloud. Smithy neared the end of his journey, sighted land, drew closer. A brief silence, and then from five beds came a chorus of anguished sounds. The man with tho headphones had dropped off to, gl.egflt