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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14538, 16 October 1917, Page 3

More than S,OOO Chinamen and Indians are working in Burma on the production of the rare metal wolfram for the Ministry of Aiunitions.

In opening the annual exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, Lord Liverpool taid tho possibility or the talent for art vanishing had been alluded to, but if they knew what had been got front men at the front in tho way oi: sketches and caricatures they •would not think art was diminishing at the present thn>\ He thought JNew Zealand artists, however, did not take scenes of their own country sufficiently for subjects. If they went round any picture gallery , they would see little ! New Zealand scenery. I'Jnglish people asked for really good pictures of this .kind, and ho thought if artists realised tins they would take more trouble. He had been pissed on sevorhl occasions to secure such pictures, if they looked m picture shop windows they would see few pictures of scenes in the dependencies. l>v encouraging such work they would be educating all in what concerned iheir own race and country. He would ask the society to do all they could to perpetuate the*manifold beauties of New Zealand, such as the kauri forests, bays and mountain scenery By so doing tney Would render a service zo their institution, country, and' race

fepeaking to a "Poverty JJay Herald" representative, Lieutenant To Awarau Maori ref-nutiiig officer, stated that in .view of the. spehdid response from the JLast Coast and the consequent <vreatj shortage ot nativo labour, there was iio ■ active recruiting on the coast at present, Lieittenani Te Awarau, wlo has heen on short leave attending to his' j farming interests on the. coast, went jon to say that under the 1916 Act conscription was extended to the Maoris, ,out there was still a chance that it : would not have to bo put into operation, llecruitmg operations had recently been centred on tho "West Coast and in the Taupo district, and the only natives who were holding back were the Waikatos. i'hey were, however, on the verge 01 falling i n t o i mo , which would save the extension of conscription to the Maori race. Sir James Carroll had put the position very clearly before them at the recent meeting afc Mornnsville, when he put it to "them that it they provided 200 to 300 recruits it would save conscription and at the same .time it would be the end of the Maori reinforcements. Any Maoris enlisting after that would "jr 0 into the Ijakeha force. As far as could be gathered, Sir James created a very favourable impression.