VERSE OLD AND NEW

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 9

VERSE OLD AND NEW

lI—CIIIiISTMAS If A DIO. (I’umsny MacDonald landed in Xow York, October 4, 1020.) One ilnv I listened in across the sons Wlion shouts of welcome smote the ambient breeze; 1. hoard the sirens hoot', —up from the crowd The welkin rang with human greetings loud. i Wo Britons heard; —our Messenger of Peace 1 j. Had landed there; these sounds, without sureease, Shall roach each island of the far-off main, Shall catch I he note and send it back' again. . > How did they hear—those shepherds long ago— Who caught a Message through the. midnight glow? -- ... They heard the rapture of the angelic, strain That now, to-day, earth echoes back again. What know we of the wonders of bur day ! • • • : :l (I. heard those sounds three thousand ■miles away.) May it not be that, they that watch and wait • - ■ Inside the portal of tlie heavenly gate; May hear the music of our sphere to-day, I And hail the curbing of all battle fray? > , • So shall there sound again, o’er vale] and hill, “Peace on-the Earth, and unto men Goodwill. ’ ’ Bath, England, ID2P. .T. McE. UP TO DATE. When oik 1 grows old, young people, smile » At one’s best counsel given away And say, “Ah! Yes . . . but that was* then — This is a newer, cleverer day.’’ “Xo doubt you were quite wellinformed . , In those benighted times, now gone, But you must realise, to-day That life lias travelled swiftly on.” • ■ t J smile in secret at their talk. And listen meekly as I may..; For Time will bring me sweet revenge; They’li be back numbers,, too, some day ! , ; —Marion L. Jackson. LIFE ’S BEST. What is the best to be lin’d from life? Is it consciousness won, of work well done — ■,■ Or a race that is run for a place in the sun? Is it 'mini’s acclaim of your name and fame— . The knowledge you’re easily first in the; game? ~ Or the .power to wander, hither rind yonder, The world to see; or riches to squander? I will tell von the best to lie had from .. life ! „ . , ; - ■ The smile in your eyes as you hurry past, , . ( f fiie clasp of.your hand as it holds mine fast, The thrill of your lips as they meet my own Are. worth all heaven and earth alone! ♦*‘V. m ***•» V»M4H ' 4 CJU W»' W •«* ■ »'

THE PERFECT MOTOR TRADER

WHAT HE MUST KNOW, What is a “hot spot”? What is tli o cause of .“wheel wobble” ami how wouhl you remedy it? How would you write a final letter to a customer who hgs ignored two letters about an account two mouths old? ' These are but a few of tho questions that had to be answered recently bv two hundred candidates sitting iu different parts of the country for the membership degree of the Institute of the Motor Trade. It is the object of the Institute, which is described as a “motor university,” to raise the status of the industry and protect the, public frani. incompetent motor engineers. . Among the other problems sot were: Discus,s the . difference, if anv. between a pedestrian, in full us of his faculties, and one who is absolutely deaf.,. , A lady who is not a customer ol yours rings you,up to say that she is stranded owing to a tyre on her car having burst, the. spare wheel being .also useless. Slip asks you to send a new tyre and a. man to lit it at once. How; wouhl you deal with this order? What would be your, legal liability if vou sold a car to a man, assuring him by letter that it was the best, machine on the. market, a.nd the man brought it back after and said that lie had found that it was not the best machine on the market ? JAPAN TO BUILD BID ROAD system. The Japanese Government plans to spend approximately £4,000,00(1 over a period of 10 years in building roads and awarding subsidies to various industries connected with automobile production. There is now One motor vehicle in Japan to every 1520 persons. Automobiles and parts were imported during 1928 for a total, value of over £3,000.000, Japanese manufacturers do not expect to be able to turn out passenger cars but will built trucks and buses.

PLAIN “THIEVES.”

CHECK FOR “JOY-RIDER*. “

The usual plea of “joy riding” in stolen cars w ill no longer be the means g.f offenders getting off lightly in England. A bill introduced into the

House of Commons will pronounce all persons guilty of illegally using a ear as ’thieves.

During the. l2 months ended, last September, 2030 ears were reported stolen in the. Metropolitan Police Diw triot iu London. Of these 213 G were recovered in a few hours.