A Hill Not To Be Climbed Over

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 6

A Hill Not To Be Climbed Over

HE who travels and keeps a discriminating eye on the milestones by the way must upset the axiom that "a rolling stone gathers no moss/ With men like Gladstone Hill it is all moss — the clinging, ever-

green moss of a well - stored mind, a .'.' re- ... freshed, intellect and possibly' a .tighter purse. Who knows? He is not a green Hill. '■■■< To take a man like Hill and to endeavor to set down a c o mprehensive estimate of his g c o g r a phical comings and goings, or his .multi f a rio v s commercial ventures, is to fail unless, by the reverse proces s you take up a postage stamp and inscribe thereon the places he has not visi t cd, the ventures Into which he has not plunged. A genial face has her and a tendency towards gruff,, though pleasant, straight-from -the - shoulder diction. A short-sighted Government did not even deign tg ex|llH||rMHMHmiimmiHlllHl»MHM»miUMHmiMll»!n(lHMllllimHHHimilimfc;HMmilllininMll umiumiiMiiiuiiiiiMiiiiiiiimiiimimiiiiiiMiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiHuiiimiiiumiimiiiiiiiiiii

tend the courtesy of a formal letter of thanks for the voluntary boosting of "New Zealand done. by Gladstone Hill when he was abroad. However, the world has ma.d.c him a philosopher. Butter and cheese started his active brain m commercial spheres, but he was an able rnusiciari and well - known bandsman. He was' caught up m the business of choirs and orchestras — and m this branch ajso he organized and managed the famous Verbrugghen Orchestra.

Trie AustraI i a n Silver Band then found him as publicity director and manager, and now h e . has been telling the world, all about the world's greatest aviator, Cobham. Like dust unto dust, so like Wellingtonian that he is by adoption, he will return unto Wellington to settle down m the musical business. He will make harmony there.

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