Lancings. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1913. A PRINCE IN ISRAEL.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 692, 4 October 1913, Page 6

Lancings.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1913. A PRINCE IN ISRAEL.

gere shall the Press the People's right maintain lawed by principle and unbribed by gain Hare patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw. Ftodgea to Religion, Liberty, and Law

Air, A. M. Myers a Ives Auckland Nine Thousand.

/"■■l E have-no millionaires in New jQ| Zealand, and it is probable that, in presenting Auckland >ith £9000 to buy a park with, Mr.' A. ~*k Myers; M.P./has made a sort of re- ; cpra for New Zealand among men who •r© game to be practically benevolent before they die. With Mr. Myers' money, the City Council has acquired a good ■ piece of land in the heart of the city, "which is to be set aside as a public park. % ,: It has been rescued from possible slums . «r from Gradgrihd's brick and- mortar to ',' be a thing of oeauty and a joy for ever. '.This is far and away the best visible ■ monument any public man,can have. la .; there no Wellington magnate who feels Amoved to do likewise? * * .• *..'' ■','i Mr. Myers really sets an excellent ex- .' Ample. The habit men have of hoarding their wealth and merely leaving legacies .to the public when .they dje has in it a something grudging and cold-blooded. But when a man in full enjoyment of his life and usefulness puts This hand into hie pocket and deprives himself of a large sum, there is always a fine whole* hearted practical humanity in his,nature. Mr. Myers is warm-hearted by instinct. He is always giving, always helping. This ' sort of thing Incomes a habit with him,, a man who cordially cultivates a habit of that sort deserves to be highly esteemed b— any community.-