Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 8, 22 February 1908, Page 3

Sayings of the Week

The business of the Company is increasing in a most satisfactory manner, and we have again a record to place before you in our premium income, which amounts to £616,416, being an increase on the previous year of £57,268. — Hon. 8. Thome George, Chairman N.Z. Insurance Co. » * • • If all goes well, and making a fair allowance for contingencies, the Department anticipates having the rails connected for the Main Trunk railway about the end of next October. The moment they get the rails connected they will run a passenger train through, but it will not be safe to commence running the fast express trains until the works have had some time to consolidate.— Mr. Holmes, Enginecr-in-Chief. * * * • I have again been approached to stand for the Bay of Plenty, but at the present time I see no reason why I should abandon Gisborne, especially as the newformed Gisborne electorate now included Wairoa, my birthplace, and where I have a large circle of friends. — Hon. J. Carrol. « * • • The year has been a very satisfactory one. The comparison of stock passed through the yards this year with the previous year showed that sheep had increased by 67,000, while pigs had decreased by 2,000, and cattle by 1,700. — Mr. E. G. Staveley, Chairman Canterbury Saleyards Co. * * • • Some people do not seem to understand the risk they run by accosting women in the street. It would be quite proper to charge men with assault who accost girls and women, and if they come before me they will be punished for such.— Judge Kettle. • * • • Blood is already being shed in both East and West by hungry men demanding bread, and war in England is not far off. The stony-hearted plutocracy will provoke a revolution unless they are careful. — Mr. Gray, leader of the Manchester unemployed, addressing Et'.i boys. • • • • Gambling is doing more to demoralise people than almost anything — even drink.— Hon. G. Fowlds. The teaching of elementary religious ideas was as much a part of the curriculum in a public school system as the teaching of arithmetic or history.— Mr. G. Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools. • • « • Unless . effective social and moral reforms were secured society, as at present constituted, must yield to the new order of things on a socialistic basis.— Mr. W. H. Uriited States Secretary of War. I hope to see a university of agriculture that will raise the occupation of the farmer- to that of a profession, in the highest sense of the term. — Hon. R. McNab. » * * • The British navy is our first line of defence; and British pluck, courage, and traditions will come in there. If the last defence was swept away every man in the Dominion r even, in the e.vent of the beatiiig of the British fleet in the Mediterranean or in: the East, would fight on to the : last to preserve his country.— Sir J. Ward. In trying to minimise the gambling evil, we must try to make social conditions as satisfying to the whole nature of man as possible. .Something had been done .during th 6 last session of Parliament to try to cope with the eviE— Bon. G. Fowlds. I have'nothing, but admiration for the hospitality; kindness, and courtesy of the people I have met. Rotorua is beautiful, and, admirably arranged, and the hotel, (the Grand) in which we stayed there is As good as any I havb met in the .world. The Government has every reason to be gratified at the result of State management of . the township.— Sir John Madden, Chief Justice of Victoria.

As regards the San Francisco disaster, shareholders will be pleased to know that our estimate of £285,694 for these losses has been ample; and now that they have been virtually all settled there is a small surplus from this amount in our favour.—Chairman N.Z. Insurance Co. * * * * There is no doubt that the blue cod is one of our very best fishes. He is quite a distinct variety from the rock cod, which is not plentiful. For freezing or transportation, he is the best of our New Zealand fishes. — Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries . • » « « Dairying is not universal throughout New Zealand; it is principally confined to Taranaki, Wellington and Auckland Provinces; but the bulk of the cheese up till this season has been manufactured in the South Island. — Mr. D. Cuddie, N.Z. Dairy Commissioner. * * * * He felt they should express their sympathy with the settlers in different parks of the Dominion who had suffered loss through fires and were fighting day and nigne to save their homesteads.— Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P. * » * # When the Main Trunk line is finished at the end of the year the two great cities of the North Island will be linked together, and then will come the struggle for supremacy. Auckland is bound to come to the front in that struggle. I hope that the energy necessary to bring about such a result will not be found lacking.— Mr. A. Kidd, M.P. • • • • Hitherto we have assimilated the accumulated experiences of other colonies as regards the dairying industry, and have applied it with wonderful success to our conditions, but now we must go further, and apply science to our own special conditions for ourselves, in order to make the most of our resources. The time has now come when it is necessary to get our own chemists and bacteriologists to find the hidden secrets in the climatic and other conditions peculiar to the Dominion.— Hon. R. McNab. I cannot help being struck with the way in which the Aucklanders are pushing business in the newly-settled district along the Main Trunk line. In one township I found four commercial travellers from the Northern city, and all were as keen as possible.— Mr. Remington, M.P. for Rangitikei. Parents should never neglect the religious instruction of their children, and there was deep wisdom in the old system of reading chapters from the Bible and the Pilgrim’s Progress. The Sunday School and the day school can never make up for the neglect of these things, which mean a training of the child .in the habits of common godliness.-— Mr. G. Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools. * * * * Let the conception of woman’s political duty be earnest and real.—Mr. R. Monk. * * * • The dairying industry has developed enormously since 1892, and our butter and cheese have obtained a high standard of excellence on the London market. What New Zealand has accomplished on the London market in fifteen years it has taken other countries decades to attain.—Hon. R. McNab. - We employ six practical instructors in cheese and butter-making. They go from factory to factory,, instructing managers in their work. This instruction is provided free by the Government, and close attention is paid to those doing the poorest work.— Mr. D, Cuddie, N.Z. Dairying Commissioner. * • » • Our Arbitration Act could be improved, blit none the less it done away wiki the old system of the strength of men against the strength of money. Under that system only one class suffers —the workers and their wives and children.— Sir J. Ward.

The Japanese manufacturers of chemical manures are our most dangerous competitors. The Japanese have raw material in their own country, they secure labour at 1/ per day of 12 hours, and they can ship manures to New Zealand at a total cost of 10/ per ton. It costs 12/6 to ship a ton of manure from Auckland to Dunedin. About 1,500 men are employed in the industry in the colony, and their wages amount to some £70,000 per annum.— Mr. James Henton, General Manager of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. • • • * New Zealand has made remarkable legislative progress, considering the fact that the towns of the Dominion are represented by only twenty-five members, while there are fifty-five representatives of farming and agricultural communities in the House of Representatives. This progress has been possible only with the aid of the Liberal country members, and were their aid to be withheld nothing could be done.— Mr. H. G. Ell, M.P. New Zealand can produce canned fruits equal to any put up in California, so far as quality is concerned, and the price compares most favourably with the American article. As time goes on the industry will greatly improve, for the old, useless varieties of fruit, which have been planted in the past, will be replaced by fruit eminently suitable for canning purposes.— Mr. IF. Jacques, Fruit Preserving Expert. Thirty thousand men, who have struck work in the shipping trade at Sunderland, are now out of work and nearly starving. These men and their wives could have been saved if they had in the Old Country such a law as our Arbitration Act. The old system was barbarous, cruel, and cowardly, and in every country where it exists the men always get the worst of it.— Sir J. Jl'ard. I am opposed altogether to the importation of expert material in any sphere when we have equally competent men in the Dominion. — Mr. IF. H. Webbe, ex - President of the Auckland Musical Society. We have the shadow of the yellow peril over New Zealand. Suppose the time should come in future years when the eaucated Chinese were able to shoulder a gun, and take their position in the field on equal terms with other nations, could we expect a handful of people in New Zealand to effectually defend our shores against them?— Sir J. Ward. The Government of the Argentine is bad, very bad; and any man or firm going into business has to pocket his commercial morality. One of the pleasing diversions of the country is its revolutions, which are as plentiful in that benighted country as - measles are in New Zealand.— Mr. Thomas Hammond, Rangitikei. The Prime Minister spoke of equal opportunities, but what opportunities were there in connection with socialism? It was equal restriction.— Mr. F. Hander, M.P. It is time the country returned men of principle. I am coming out for Kaipara at next election.— Mr. A. E. Harding. New Zealand would, for at Iqast many years, go on utilising its railways as the great engine to help and promote the general interests of the people, both iri town and country.— Sir J. Ward. The Government’s action' in seeing ti.at only good butter is exported, and in having it properly graded, has helped the butter, industry considerably. Wo don’t find our Government at Home looking after our interests in tlie same way. —Mr. W. O'. Dawes, Chairman N.Z. Shipping Co. Their only investment in New Zealand was sdine City of Auckland Harbour Debentures —a security which was very closely analogous to English trustee investments, and in his opinion more valuable than a good many of them.— A. M. Mitchison, ('hairman N.Z. find River Plate Co. « • * • “Please, gentlemen, judge, me aS I am; I’m a good cook and a good laundress, and get my 30/ a week easily.”— Mary Ann O'Brien, Auckland Police Court.

The statesman had not yet appeared who could devise a policy whereby the gifts of nature and Providence should be freely distributed without destroying thrift, industry, and self-reliance. The day was coming in the near future when thrift and industry must not lie niggardly, but plenteously rewarded with the blessings which were being showered on this earth, and when it would be criminal for any class of men to "corner” the foods or necessities of life. The God of Providence had made the earth fruitful, but had left the distribution to man. —Rev. J. A. Inirford. It was recognised that so far as the matter of the general mining law and tenure was concerned, the United States was just about in the condition that New Zealand and Australia were some 30 or 40 years ago. — Mr. R, J. I eatch, U.S. Commissioner for Mines. I wish, Cardinal Moran, on behalf of my people, to tender you a hearty welcome to New Zealand, and express our deepest appreciation of your kindness to us to-day.— Bishop Lenihan. Mr. Keir Hardie is so impressed with the legislative progress of New Zealand that he is going to send two of his sons to live in the Dominion, believing that the country is the best in the world for the working man.— Mr. H. G. Ell, M.P. Such a reception could not do other than cement the union which from the earliest days had welded together the great diocese of Sydney and this diocese of Auckland.— Cardinal Moran. The great broad defence of the nation rested on sea supremacy. If we lost that we would have lost the mainspring of our defence.— Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary for War. The impetus of the desire nature kept the individual soul bound to earth conditions, and every desire that involved physical life for its gratification was an impediment to the realisation of man’s true spiritual nature. The first step towards liberation was a change in the nature of desire—that change signified by the phrase setting the affection on things above, -and not on things below.— Miss Drowning. It was a question to be asked the electors next e'ection, and it was for them to say whether a min in this country should be allowed to reap the reward of his industry, or whether by taxation and other methods he should be compelled to share the fruits of his hard labours with others less energetic or less industrious.— Mr. Vi. F. Massey, M.P. It is only a matter of time when Saturday will be the day for a universal half-holiday.— Hon. J. .1. Millar. Arbitration cannot be considered a successful factor in our economical government, unless the men entrusted with its, administration have a wide business and technical experience. — Mr. Samuel Brown, employers’ representative on tha Arbitration Court. I think there would be fewer complaints if . the Boards of Education insisted on all the schools, in one district using the same set of- books.— Hog. G. Fowlds. One of my employers used to give me half-days-off, so that. I could go to football matches, and he used to supply me with a hack. That employer has since sold his place. — William Hodgkinson, farm labourer. Twenty five years ago we started work with six butchers. Now we have eightysix at work.— Mr. Waymonth, of the Canterbury Frozen Ment Co. ♦ • * * Up to now the Government had very readily helped the mining industry, and tho same policy would go on in future, in order to ensure not only hope, but success. — Sir J Ward. • • • * If a man marries a woman, he marries her with her faults. You arc not the first man who has had to pay for his wife's idiosyncrasies, and you should have used better discretion. — Vr. Hishop, 8 Jin Christchurch.

A fraction of loss occasioned through carelessness or want of intimate knowledge. multiplied by the very many thousands of tons of produce shipped to London annually by the association, would annually represent a very considerable sum, and in these days it was not advisable uj run any risk of making these losses of fractions.—J/r. Wesley Spragg, of the Dairy Association. It seems to me that there should be some strict supervision of the Domain during the summer months, otherwise there might be trouble through the lighting of fires there. The whole of the native bush might easily be ruined. — Mr. Kettle, S.M. If you continue to ask what I have requested you not to ask, Mr. Lundon, I will commit you for contempt of Court. Go on with your case! — Mr. Justice Edicards. The position of any country depends on its education system. The increase in expenditure is alarming, but I believe it is the best investment the country can have. In 1901 the expenditure was £578,595, and it has now risen to £923,572. At present the ideal of the education system is to provide free education from the primary school to the university.—The Hon. G. Fowlds. Tlie No-License movement is more than half a century old in New Zealand. Some years ago an assistant librarian in the House of Representatives showed me as a curiosity a petition signed by 132 residents of Wanganui, and dated January 13, 1856. Tlie petitioners stated that they deeply deplored the progress of the vice of drinking, and prayed that a law on the lines of the Maine liquor law should be introduced, giving them a right to vote upon the local abolition of the traffic. Those who signed the petition were now probably in their graves.— Mr. G. Laurenson, M.P. When the Main Trunk railway was opened, Paeroa people would be able to travel through to Wellington more cheaply than the same distance could be travelled over in any other part of the world.— Sir J. Ward. » « « » An important point was that through the extended operations of the company and the people it sent abroad, the Dominion of New Zealand was advertised very freely as well as the company itself. Mr. Minnit, General Inspector N.Z. Insurance Co. If is no joke to the brigade. We have been kept oh the jump ever since the big fire, and you have to remember that we have only two permanent men, the rest are volunteers. I have two men working all the time repairing hose, and last night the firemen got very little rest at all. The people who insist on keeping their rubbish exposed are as much to blame as anyone. — Superintendent Smith, of Christchurch. The only real factor undermining the health of Ministers, as well as other members of the House who conscientiously perform their duties, is the mode in which the latter end of the session is always conducted. In my opinion that could be reformed. — The Hon. T. W. Hislop. • * • * The man spent all his money in beer he should have taken home, and then visited his vile temper on the wife and children—a Ihing that is becoming too frequent. — S-trgeant Hendry. * » ♦ » Tlie public could not be too quickly educated to habits'of self-control, so that in case of Are or other danger sufficient presence of mind might be displayed to prevent a panic.— Mr. Bush, City Engineer. Something should be done to stop the disgraceful scenes at the terminus of the trams in rush hours when a crowd of ill-mannered men rushed the care and were guilty of brutality to women and children* -Mr. C. J. Parr. The h av. Samuel Marsden was not merely the introducer and supervisor of missions in New Zealand in 1814, but he Was also a great traveller and explorer, and to him we owe some of the earliest discoveries of the interior of the northern ci tn try.— Dr. Hoeken, of Dunedin.

Since I first held office the concessions given back to the people in the shape of fares, season and annual tickets, etc., amounted to £850,000, including £500,000 to the agricultural and pastoral community. In the shape of increased mileage the sum amounts to £883,458, whilst the increased pay to employees during the same period totals £375,000 pel' annum. This makes a total of concessions amounting to £2,loB,ooo.— Sir J. Ward. You ask me to set you free in order that you may • marry, but that is certainly the last thing you ought to do.— Mr. Justice Edwards. « « • * The failure of the prosecutions for cattle driving has been deplorable, and as regards boycotting. I wish to God it would cease. — Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland. The Government of the Dominion was anxious to mould public opinion to the extent of saying that there should be some system of preferential trading between the peoples of the British Empire. If we could eo-operate with our kinsmen in Canada and Australia for the purpose of having an exchange on a preferential system fair to each other, it would give a great impetus to our country, which would be particularly beneficial to our producers and settlers who had gone into the interior.— Sir J. TFard. In all probability the cadet system would be made universal in the same manner as the training of young men. The system began in the schools, and its success would depend in a large measure on the completeness of the rudimentary military training in the schools. — Mr. Alfred Dea-kin, Premier of Victoria. If Great Britain wished to retain her supremacy of the sea she must increase the number of Dreadnoughts and complete the naval base at Rosyth without delay. Great Britain must never lower the I nion Jack before the red flag of cosmopolitan Socialism. — Mr. George Wyndham, ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland. We ought not to allow the Chinese to come into New Zealand at all.— Sir J. Ward. He wanted this country to become what it was intended to be, one of the fairest and freest on God’s earth, where there should be no extremes of wealth or poverty, where the man who had energy and ability would be given the opportunity of coming to the front—a country where, as time went, on, there would be more education, more enlightenment, and more real happiness than in any other country on this planet, a country whose people would have realised their duty, and be doing it to their Creator and themselves. But if they were to advance as they should, it would not be by canting socialistic methods, but by honest methods, and by desire on the part of each individual to do his duty.— Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P. * w * * Back to the land may be a good cry for a community, but back to the breast is the best cry for our infants, and the future of the race.—Dr. Bedford. * * * * Tlie Arbitration Court, in perambulating the country, is making criminals of all sorts of innocent people, who have really committed no offence at all. They are fined heavily for some trifling or absurd breach of the labour laws. Under these laws it is made a crime to use a paint brush unless one has served his time to the trade, or is a member of a painters’ union.— Mr. Wm, Philcox. * * * * We shall never have a naval engagement on the New Zealand coast. The future engagement will be in the Mediterranean. perhaps, or in the East, off India, but when it does come, let us hope that England will win. If Germany were to win it would mean that not only Great Britain, but every portion of the British Empire, would be beaten.— Sir J. Ward. • » « • The Christchurch fire assumed such proportions owing to there not being a sufficient supply of water at as good a pressure as there is in Auckland, but there is no doubt that high buildings, at any rate, should be constructed as fireproof as possible.— Mr. Bush, City Engineer. — - ■ •

In addition to six male instructors we have a lady instructress, who visits the private dairies. Most of her work i‘ carried on in the Taranaki Province, where farmers are not in a position to send their milk to any one centre. — Mr. D. Cuddie, N.Z. Dairying Commissioner. « • * « From 1892 to 1907 totalisator investments had increased from £506,098 to £1,837,095, while in the same period permits were reduced from 234 to 139. Anyone who gave attention to the subject must admit that gambling was a canker responsible for more degradation, misery and crime than any other evil we had in our midst.— Hon. G. Fowlds. Our losses during the year amount to £406,577, and full provision has been made for all known and unadjusted losses. — Hon. S. Thorne George, Chairman N.Z.I. Co. The mission of the women who looked forward to marrying and settling in this country, or seeing their daughters or sons married and settling on the land, was to see that that land, if it was leasehold, carried the option of freehold, so that they might receive the benefit of their labours, the fruits of their toil, that the single taxers had the impudence to eall the unearned increment. — Mr. R. ju onk.