IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19833, 31 December 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

Mass production ran never produce the best.—Mr. Walter Tapper. The fewer laws a government makes the better.—Mr. E. C. Grenfell, M.P. Make pictures fashionable like, short skirts and everybody will want them.— Mr. George Audley. War was all right fifty years ago. It's a fool's game now.—Field-Marsnal Sir William Robertson. The Bolsheviks don't know how hopelessly bourgeois they themselves are at heart.—Mr. Bernard Shaw. The greatest rulers of men to-day are some who were slain many centuries ago. —Mr. Austin Hopkinson, M.P. There is too much of this gambling. Everyone seems to-be trying to get something" for nothing, and without effort.— Sir Leonard Rowland. If you spend three or four years in studying papers of a great man it is impossible not to feel a sort of loyalty to him. —Mr. Philip Guedalla. The* Englishman distrusts and dislikes intellectual solutions; he prefers that something should happen, and that, lie should then apply a plaster.—Sir Josiah Stamp. As a Parliamentary candidate I used to grumble at the best seats in my meetings being occupied by women. Now I look upon women with different eyes. Viscount Peel.

After thirty years' observation I have come to the conclusion that the views of an expert witness vary very much with the side bv which he is called. -Mr. Justice McCardie.