TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19452, 17 December 1934, Page 8

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Tampering With the Forces. “ Critics of the Incitement to Disaffection Bill arc singularly tender to the foes of the Constitution that enables them to make their protests,” states the London Daily Telegraph. “Does anyone imagine that the gentry who incite soldiers to mutiny would have much respect for free speech if they got their Avay? “ We had much rather there Averc no organised corruption of this kind to need restraint —and the Prime Minister, if avc mistake not, must feel the same. But the thing exists, and Ministers have made every possible concession to prevent Avliat may be called innocent perverts from social loyalty from incurring the penalties designed for Avilful seduction.” A Good Riddance. “ The old-fashioned big game hunter Avho flourished round about the beginning of this century Ims gone,” Avrites Dir Rawdon Malet, in his book, “Unforgiving Minutes.” “This is entirely, or almost entirely, due to the receding of game before advancing civilisation. In-practically every part of India and Africa game is very carefully licensed. Tavo tuskers, perhaps, may he shot in a year. “Further, fashions have changed in sport as they always have and nlAvavs Avill. .Large bags are perhaps less sought, after. Better heads perhaps insisted on. There is a distinguished general, a sportsman in the best sense of the Avord, Avho embellished his hall with a lai’ge number of minute ibex horns, the first fruits of a visit to Cashmere half a century ago, of which he is inordinately proud. The modern subaltern Avould bury them if he had ever shot them.”