IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20229, 13 April 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

I hope lo have a shilling theatre.—Mr. Philip liidgeway. Heaven's light our guide.—Motto adopted by Portsmouth. We do not know a millionth' per cent, of anvthing.—-Thomas Alva Edison. We are still in the experimental stage of Christianity.—Mr. Stanley Baldwin. There is no prize given in this court for the best cou/h.—Mr. Justice Avory. If f want anybody for an important iob I look for a busy man.—Sir Robert BadenPowell. Is it only fancy that villages have more beautiful names than towns?—" Observator," in the Observer. The power of the films is used with immense mechanical skill behind the brains of a rabbit. —.Miss Lena Aslnvtll. In all history the first true gleams of the light of toleration are in the hesitations of Pontius Pilate.—Lord Shaw. I am terrified lest in twenty years' time all our children should talk like little announcers.—The Hector of Sheringham. Railway stations should provide for trains on tho ground floor, buses above, and aeroplanes on the roof.—Mr. M. F. Farrar. The real work of education is in the interaction- between master and boy and between bov and boy.—President of the Incorporated Association of Headmasters. At each extension of tho franchise within the last .100 years there have been gloomy forebodings as to tho terrible results fhat would follow, yet in each case these prophecies have turned out incorrect. —Sir Thomas Inskip. There is in America an extraordinary suspicion attached to any offer we may make them, and so long as that suspicion exists I do riot know flint it is really much use our making any further proposals.—Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, M.P.