EXPRESS STRIKES LORRY

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1930, Page 9

EXPRESS STRIKES LORRY

SMASH AT ORINGI CROSSING.

By Telegraph.—Press .Association.

Dannevirke, Last Night.

The Napier to Wellington down express was held up for' an hour and a half to-day at Oringi through crashing into the rear of a motor-lorry -laden with fencino- posts and driven by a man named NeaT. Neal had a lucky escape, but the lorry was badly smashed and. the locomotive was disabled, necessitating a relief engine being sent from Woodville.

"The churches do not seem to be touching the people, drawing the masses nor influencing the multitude as they did 20, 30 and 40 years ago,” said Mr. A. M. Niblock, during the course of a psychological lecture in New Plymouth last evening. He explained that he was an orthodox evangelical Church of England clergyman and had been, a short time ago, vicar of Stanley Bay, near Devonport; Auckland. He put the reason for the churches’ loss of touch down to the war. For the younger folk it had changed absolutely the value of life, even as it had changed the value .of the sovereign. Psychology, the science of life in ev-cYy sense of the word, gave a deeper meaning to religious convictions, but it could not be preached in the church. He decided to devote his life to bearing and preaching what seemed to be the message of the age. By leaving his parish, though it meant giving up his church, he could reach more people, and he had done it.

During legal argument in a case before the Court”of Appeal at W llington last week counsel referred several times I a statement in the evidence that the district in which the litigants lived had experienced an “old man” flood. At length his Honour (Mr. Justice Herdman) smilingly asked one of tl counsel for a description of such a flood. His Honour suggested that in the old gold., field days when there were two floods on top of one another, the first was termed a young flood, and tile second an old man flood. (Laughter.). “It is an expression the oldest inhabitant would use?” suggested Mr. Justice Adams. "Perhaps that is it, your Honour,” replied counsel. “At any rate, the mean-)-ing I take from the term is a very severe flod,” 1