WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Southland Times, Issue 22051, 26 June 1933, Page 6

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

The ugly werds, Hun and Prussian, are once again coming into our vocabulary.— Mr T. J. O'Connor, M.P.

It is true, pathetically true, that neither in the Labour Movement nor in the avowed revolutionary Socialist Movement in this country can the ordinary man find a cause. —Mr J. Middleton Murry.

It is only things like nightingales and buses and saxophones and the pronunciation of the names of streets that enable me to preserve such reason as Nature endowed me with.—Mr Robert Lynd.

The Government Meteorologist last evening issued the following weather report and forecast: The general situation shows that a rather deep cyclone is located over the centre of the Tasman and is moving on to the Dominion. The forecast is for winds northeast to northerly, moderate mainly, but strong to gale force in places, especially in the north; changing later in the south to southerly and in the north to westerly. Seas in New Zealand waters rough on the West Coast, elsewhere smooth to moderate, but rising. In the eastern Tasman Sea strong northerly winds to gale force, backing to southerly during the next 24 hours. Seas rough. Weather overcast and in places misty. General rain probable with many heavy falls, especially in the North Island. Temperatures mild and becoming colder again in the south.

It may be of interest to know (writes a correspondent to a northern paper) that it has been estimated that, given good conditions, one pair of rabbits in three years will increase to 13,000,000.

“Accountants nowadays are asked and expected to give answers on legal subjects,” said Mr Goldstine in the Auckland Supreme Court, when Mr Justice Smith asked whether certain advice given by an' accountant who appeared as a witness in the case could be considered as expert advice. Mr Goldstine said no doubt the advice given would have been accepted from a solicitor, and nowadays accountants were asked to advise on legal quesfions as well. They prepared memoranda and articles of association and registered companies. “I believe they do,” replied his Honour.

From Saturday evening last the municipal baths were to be closed for one month, reopening again on August 1.

What is regarded as the social event of the year at Bluff will take place tonight when a dance and euchre party will be held at Ocean Beach under the auspices of the freezing works employees. This has been a very popular event in the past and a large gathering is expected.—Bluff correspondent.

Applications to date under the No. 10 building subsidy scheme in Palmerston North cover a total value of £30,000, including one sum of £17,000, states a Press Association message. Applications are being received at a rapid rate, indicating a revival in the building trade under the stimulus of the subsidy.

The passenger transport award was filed in the Arbitration Court to-day embodying the recommendations of the Conciliation Council which sat in Wellington on March 23, states a Press Association message from Wellington. The award operates for a year from July 3. The claim by the union for. an additional penny per hour for drivers employed in publicly-owned services was refused by a majority decision, the workers’ representative recording his dissent.

The “budget” presented to the annual meeting of delegates to the Dominion Council of the Returned Soldiers Association by the special committee appointed to go into the matter was adopted without alterations. The estimated revenue for the coming year was £3501. 15/4, including £2OBB 8/4 from the Poppy Day levy, and £1333 7/- from capitation fees. On the expenditure side £522 2/1 will be allowed as the Poppy Day rebate, £lOO for travelling expenses, £1312 5/- for salaries, £9OO for the Review, ( and £175 to the badge account. The “budget” provided for an estimated surplus of £3 4/9.

The following remit, which was passed at the annual meeting of the R.S.A. last year, was reaffirmed at the conference last week: “That in view of the acute want in a land of plenty and the evident dissatisfaction. with the existing monetary and credit system as revealed at this Dominion council meeting of delegates, the New Zealand R.S.A.‘ urges the setting up of a tribunal presided over by a Supreme Court Judge to hold a full, open, and immediate inquiry into the operations of the New Zealand monetary and credit system and possible alternatives thereto with a view to meeting the legitimate requirements of trade, commerce and industry, and to provide the maximum stimulus in the effort to meet our overseas obligations.”

“The founders of the New Zealand Legion committed the legion to one thing only, democratic government,” said Mr A. W. Free at a legion meeting at Kelburn. The legion’s sole aim, he said, was efficient government, government that would promote social , justice, economic efficiency, and individual liberty. To reach maximum efficiency, democratic government must be based on a conscientious and educated electorate and provide an executive authority which would not be subject to effective sectional pressure. The measure of a government's efficiency was, however, not its form but the laws it made. The legion was, therefore, concerning itself with three things—the education of the electorate, the abolition of parly government which was the creation of sectional interests, and the formulation and advocacy of legislative measures. No measures would be advocated by the legion until all legion centres had been consulted.

The ability of many blind people to get about busy streets without a guide is a never failing source of wonder, particularly in view of the ever increasing motor traffic. This, however, does present a problem to the blind, particularly with the increasing speed and silence of the modern car. Blind people have always been averse to branding themselves in any way or. in drawing attention to their disability. Nevertheless, they have felt that with the growth of traffic something must be done, both in the interests of their own safety and in fairness to drivers of motor cars to provide some indication that extra caution is necessary. After much discussion it was decided in Europe that the most generally useful sign would be for blind people to carry white walking sticks and this has now found general acceptance . in Britain and North America. The idea has also appealed to a number of blind people in New Zealand and the Board of Trustees of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind has decided to offer a white walking stick as a gift to any bona fide blind person desiring, to have one. The automobile associations have also been informed and have accepted the idea as a good one. The sign will also be of service to the blind in ordinary pedestrian traffic, particularly as the eyes of some blind people have the outward appearance of being normal and their occasional collisions with other pedestrians are apt to be misunderstood.

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