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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 16

Owing to altered trading conditions as a result of good roads and efficient motor services the Union Steam Ship Company is withdrawing the passenger steamer Tuatea from Gisborne, and sending her to Auckland, states a telegram from Gisborne. During the twenty-four years the Tuatea has been at Gisborne she carried 300,000 passengers to and from the roadstead, and though the service was often performed under difficult weather conditions not one person has been injured. Captain Hawkes, master of the Tuatea, is retiring from the sea. The value of ancient history was explained by Professor L. G. Pocock in a lecture to the W.E.A. on Saturday evening. He said that civilisation owed a great deal to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Greeks were deeply interested in politics, were original thinkers, had a radical type of mind, and made many political experiments. The Romans were not original in the same sense, but they preserved the Greek culture and spread it through the Mediterranean world Professor Pocock outlined a simple course of reading for those who have not read much of ancient history. In giving a list of books, mostly translations, he outlined the stories of some of them.