THE OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19748, 26 March 1926, Page 10

THE OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir —| have read with Interest the letter* about’ the Exhibition being opened on Good Friday I would like to ask the letterwriters who object so strongly to the Exhibition being opened on that day to give me cne passage from the Scrir Cures in support of their plea. I read my Bible and believe in its teachings, as most Scottish . eople do, yet I have never seen In it any command to keep Good Friday more sacred than any other day. I know of no country vrhose people at heart are more religious than the old Scots folk are, and I scarcely ever heard of either Good Friday or Christmas until I left Scotland, yet God has blessed them as a nation, and they have prospered. —I am, etc., Auchterardes Ladede. / March 24. PARAKEETS IN WAITATI VALLEY. TO THE EDITOR Sis, —In your local paragraphs in the Daily Times of March 25 mention is mads of a flock of parakeets seen in the Waitatl Valley. A few native parakeets (kakariki) are still to be seen in the South Island, but the flock- seen at Waitatl is a flock of Australian rosellas. These have been known to Dunedin naturalists for the last 20 years, and although they have not Increased largely in numbers are still holding thsir own.—l am, etc., Geo. Howes, F.E.S. Dunedin, March 25, In the large room off the main corridor of the old wooden portion of Parliament Buildings some fine samples of polished New Zealand woods are to be seen (says the Dominion)-. Two pieces of panelling are shown. The first consists of Southland beech panels and puriri panels, surrounded with a framing of heart of rimu. The beech and the puriri appear in most effective contrast—the puriri dark and silky, the beech lighter and delicately tinted. The second exhibit consists of heart of rimu and kauri panels, in a rata framing. Again, the panels make an effective contrast, the rimu dark and rich, while the other has the well-known kauri softness and finish. The rata is a reminder of the neglect to which New Zealand timbers are subjected, even when plentiful in snpplv and easily accessible. The general result of this exhibition does credit enually to the woods and to the cabinetmaker, and is considered to be a happy angury for the other sort of cabinetmaking that is about to be carried on the other side of the corridor.