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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 4

“In considering conditions of employment after the war a good deal of reliance has been placed on the demands of the civil aircraft industry. It may have been excessive reliance,” states a writer in the Spectator, London. “One of the first authorities in the country recently made in private a remarkable assertion on that subject. Taking, he said, the number of first-class and cabin class passengers who crossed the Atlantic in an average year before the war; assuming that that number would in future travel by air; and assuming the initial provision of enough aeroplanes (I don’t know how many, but It cannot be high) to meet that need; the number it would be necessary to build after that to keep the fleet at full strength, would be 10 all told, say five provided by Britain and five by America. The basis of this calculation is, of course, hypothetical; no doubt more people will cross the Atlantic by air than used to cross by sea, perhaps many more. But if the figures are accurate—and they have, as I say, distinguished authority behind them—they show how relatively insignificant the intake of new machines for civil air services will be.”

“Much as I conceive of education as a continuous process, I believe the reading done between the ages of 13 and 22 can be the most important and fruitful reading of our lives,” writes J. Donald Adams in the New York. Times Ba:k Review. “It is not by any means composed entirely of required, directed reading; for young people of lively intelligence (and it is the character and quantity of their readin", that is of greatest importance) it includes also the most exciting adventures of the mind many of them will have in the course of their lives—rea'ding which is every day opening up for them new vistas of thought and action. ”