NEWS AND NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19565, 2 May 1935, Page 10

NEWS AND NOTES

FROM MANY SOURCES. PAST AND PRESENT. AN ODIOUS COMPARISON. A Wanganui reporter at a Farmers’ Union picnic at Westmere was Informed that there had been various thefts from farms in that locality within recent years and that two weeks ago a well-known farmer at Maxwell had two bales of wool stolen from his -shed. “Thirty years ago,” remarked the informant, -;“one could leave anything lying about the farm, such as tools, etc., but it is not safe to do so nowadays." ■ “He Done Hla Best.” “I am reminded of a story of the celebrated Judge Parry," said 'Mr Justice Frazer, in Ills address to the New Plymouth Rotary iClub. "lie had just spent an arduous day adjudicating upon a rather 'complicated building ease, and was travelling home on the train when he chanced to hear two working men engaged in the building trade discussing him. They were quite oblivious of fils presence, and spoke their minds freely. Finally, however, they summed the matter up by saying that the judge was ‘a blinking old fool, but he done his best!’ If, continued the speaker, when very ■shortly I leave my position as judge of the Arbitration Court, Now Zealand will say of me that I was ‘a blinking old fool who done his best,’ I could not ask for a better epitaph 1" Booame Qualified. The story is told* in a city not a hundred miles from Palmerston North of an unemployed ex-serviceman who applied to his association to have his namo placed on the list of men receiving relief under the schemes instituted by the association in conjunction with local bodies. This man was asked if he was married and his reply was ‘‘Yes, I am a widower.” The next question was "Have you any children?” and ho had to admit that lie had none. He was told lie would, therefore, have to .be treated as a single man, and he departed, possibly with a wild look in Ills eye. Not many weeks had passed before this exserviceman returned to repeat ills request and in support of his claim he explained that he was now a married man with eleven children, having married a widow possessed of a large family. The man was duly enrolled among those eligible for tho association’s relief but the remark was made that the man had taken a desperate" way of getting work. A Beor«t, The manner In which racing nows is broadcast in Sydney was recently emphasised at Hosehill. In the second division of a seven-furlong Malden' Handicap the field was of fair average medioority on form, tout one In Predicament had toeaton Vellantif in a private trial at Rosebury on the previous Thursday. Vellantif came out and ran second to -Circella in the Flying Handicap, so" the form was right, and everybody on the racecourse (.says a Sydney writer) knew of the trial, including, -of course, the bookmakers, who opened 'Predicament a hot favourite. Strangely enough the trial was not reported in any newspaper, nor was her name among the tips. The unofficial intelligence department, however, had been working overtime. The trial was right, for Predicament won easily, much to llie disgust of a few knowing ones who expected a feast of 10 to 1 and found a famine of something to four. Another Veteran Done. The death occurred a\ New Plymouth recently of Daniel Monaghan, who, In different parts of the Dominion, had been associated with raoing throughout his life. -He spent his early days in Auckland, where lie did a lot of riding, especially on jumpers, as he became 100 heavy for flat racing. Jlis most important riding success was gained on (Bombardier, on whom lie won the Great Northern Steeplechase In 1-894. About thirty years ago he look up his residence at' Riccarton, where he trained for several years, among the horses that -passed through his hands toeing Phaetontis, who won the Grand National Steeplechase In 1906. He returned to the North Island about eighteen years ago and for -some 'time past he had resided in Taranaki, where he followed his calling as a trainer. Ha paid his last visit to Riccarton for the Grand National meeting of 1932, with Ills own steeplechaser, Royal Reign, but It was an unsuccessful trip. His widow Is a daughter of the late J. Chaafe, one of Auckland's most successful trainers.

Japan’s Trade Status. A corrective of the popular idea of the extent of Japan's invasion at foreign markets is supplied by M. Fernand Maurcfle, assistant director of the International Labour Office, Geneva. After converting the value of the .foreign Iradc of the principal industrial counlries in IP3;t lo the same basis—namely, Lhc American gold dollar —lie calculates that the Iradc of Japan represents 3 per cent of world trade, dial of Great Britain 13 per cent, and that of the United iStatcs 12 per cent. Similarly, a calculation of Lhc value of the exports of every large exporting country per head of the population shows Iha t the value is '5.»0 dollars in Japan, 20.10 dollars In Great Britain, 10.03 dollars in the United Stales, and 17.70 dollars In Germany. Another significant point to which 'M. ‘Maurcllo draws attention Is that the future of Japan can lie only in manufacturing; she cannot develop industries producing raw materials or those partly manufactured goods flic production of which is restricted to countries that are rich in fuel arid raw materials. In socking explanations of the causes of Japan’s success In export trade, M. Maiircttc follows many oilier investigators in pointing to the great efficiency of its commercial and technical organisation.