WHAT THEY SAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12475, 27 February 1909, Page 1

WHAT THEY SAY.

If a man is poor, he is. a bad manager. If he is rich, he is dishonest. If he needs credit, he cannot get it. If he is prosperous, everybody wants to do him a favour. . - . . If he does not give to chanty p he is a stingy cuss. Ie he does, it is foi' show. . . . . If he is actively religious, he is a hypocrite. If he takes no interest in religion, he is a hardened sinner. If he shows affection, he is a soft specimen. If he seems to care for no one, he is cold-blooded. ■' _ If he dies young, there was a great future ahead of him. If he lives to an old age, he has missed his calling. THE PROGRESS OF ROTORUA. In the course of a conversation with an Auckland "Herald" reporter recently, Sir Joseph Ward spoko m most enthusiastic terms of the recent progress and future prospects or Rotorua. "I well remember the strong opposition, that I encountered and had to battle With when I hrst nroposed to my colleagues in the Cabinet," said Sir Joseph, "that we should run a daily express tram between Auckland and Rotorua. It was a long time before I ; could obtain the consent of the Cabinet to the daily service, it being believed that it would orove unprofitable, ttowever, it was carried into effect, and the result has fully justified it.. I am quite convinced now that the time is fast approaching when one express a day will be insufficient to carry .all the traffic between Auckland and Rotorua, and that two t™ms mil ,be found to be- necessary.'.' . The new bathhouse, the -Prune Minister■■toted,* has already notified the outlay . on its erection. The fact that £924 I had been taken in fees m five weeks spoke for itself, and it was an even better return than had been anticLnated The financial aspect was _fulVv considered before the expenditure in every way satisfactory. The ques^ tionoFthe dement of t^noecu, pied lands around Rotorua which wap referred to by Sir Joseph in a recent speech at Rotorua was also mentioned. He stated that the question would receive due consideration by the Government, with a vew-to legislation to make provison for the settlement of all "lands within tho thermal springs district which not required for the purpose of ths Tourist Department,