Simple Philosophy.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 8

Simple Philosophy.

It Occurs to Me.

Mr Taite Te Tomo gave the abundance of his losses — a gucrc. .e of his experience of racing, the average man gauges his knowledge of the same sport by the amount he can win at it. Yet the Maori philosopher has made the ultimate discovery about racing. Where he looked for wheatfields lie saw a racecourse. 44 And I was sad,’* he said, “ because racing is a fair way of getting people down.” Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises. By his speech in Parliament yesterday, Mr Taite Te Tomo showed that he had the same appreciation of the value of thrift as Mr Forbes. The Prime Minister, the same day, pointed out to a deputation of educationists that New Zealand probably occupied one of the most prominent places in the world as far as attendance and number of days devoted to racing were concerned, and one asked, he said, whether there existed to-day the desire for thrift which had obtained fifty years ago. After considering these remarks one might suggest that the test of a people to-dav is “Touchstone’s" ancient one: “ Hast any philosophy in thee. Shepherd?" _ _ 8.E5.