Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 10, 7 March 1908, Page 4

Sayings of the Week

It wan the hoy who "played the game” in school, in his house, ami on the football field, who hated swagger, and honoured the school as dearly as he regarded his own honour, who got on best, and was the boy who was the greatest honour to a school.—Lord Plunket. Anyone who knew anything about the public schools at Home knew, so far as engendering admiration for rank and possessions, that when a duke's son went to Harrow or Eton ,or some other school, and presumed on his rank, he very soon got kicked by the smallest boy in the school, and everyone was pleased when this was done. Exactly the same occurred in the ease of a boy whose parents possessed great riches, and who swaggered about ami made ostentatious display of the fact. Such a hoy was kicked even more than the duke’s son.— Lord Plunket. .... If. in the face of the extremes of wealth and destitution which modern life presents, religion has only the message about the crowns of gold which the saved shall wear liefore the throne in another sphere, it should not surprise us that men turn away from it as having no message for them.— Rev. IV. Slade, President of the Methodist Conference. The wireless telegraph system was now at such a state of perfection that it could be successfully established to communicate from one end of the Dominion to the other, or with intercolonial or coastal ships in ease of accident.—Sir Ward. * * * * There was no skeleton in the cupboard standing between Great Britain and Germany. and their good relations were a stronger protection than armies and fleets.— Herr Metternich, German Ambassador. The entire population of New Zealand is, in round numbers, 900,000. The number of people for whom accommodation is provided in all the churches and meet-ing-houses is 375,908.— Rev. IV. Slade, President Methodist Conference. 'The fault of the Christchurch people is topographical. Their environment is flat, and so arc the.y, and they are as narrow as their noble river, the Avon.—Mr. <7. S. Munro, late General Manager N.Z. Exhibition. * * * » New Zealand was forging ahead in sport, anti he wished specially to express hie gratification that the world’s championship for sculling still remained in the Dominion.— Mr. A. M. Myers, Mayor of Auckland. * * * * During the last few years I am inclined to think, from general observation, and from the animals 1 have had before me when judging at various shows, that the New Zealand horse has deteriorated, for one rices not eome across many of the big, upstanding class like those in the Wanganui district 20 years ago.— Mr. E. D. O’Rorke, Judge at the Masterton IS how. Against the solid front of a united foe w< sent a number ef detachments, a large part of whose strength was absorbed in guarding denominational interests, and who rejoice. I almost as much over capturing each other’s outpost* as in storming the stronglrolds of sin.— Rev. IV. Blade, Methodist Conference. Should the world ever produce another Shakespeare, one could not conjure up a more likely origin than that of the combination of a Celt and a Maori.— Ur. Purdy, Te Aute Association. It has been kiund by all experts that hard work in the open air, combined with systematic schooling, goes a long way towards reforming young fellows.—Captain Nevtenstr in, Comptroller-General for Prisons, N.H.W, The fundamental aim of education is the development of the moral and spirit Mai character of the child in order that he may become an efleient member of tho ideal Society of the Kingdom of God. — U'. G. Iloyben, if ,A. t Inspector General of Schools.

When wireless telegraph stations were in existence, they would never be handed to any private or public corporation.— Sir ./. Ward. If party bonds could be overcome, there would be a body of men who, while following sound Liberal principles, could tell those who had espoused the cause of revolutionary socialism in the country that they could muster their strongest members and test their full powers, but the Liberals would form a solid body to oppose them, and to give effect to what they believed were the best principles that could be advocated for the Dominion.—Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.P. It may be doubted whether any large steamer reaches a port in New Zealand without some instances of pillaging, often on a large scale. The extent and nature of the pillaging done show also, to my mind, that W, is carried on with comparative impunity, and with the connivance and assistance of a large number of persons.—,tfr. Justice Denniston. If the local authorities did not take up drainage, they would not be taking the proper responsibility they owed to the safeguard of human life.—Dr. NfOpford. He did not think that the rates would be raised by the creation of a Greater Auckland, and he strongly favoured the proposed amalgamation.— Mr. Nicholson, Mayor of Mt. Eden. The Maori was the only coloured race in the world that had never been actually beaten by a white race, but, for all that, they were now living harmoniously with the white man in this fair land. — Sir J. M'urd. In the ease of the city, the greater proportion of the eases of typhoid had occurred in that area which, unfortunately, had not yet been drained. In London, a drainage scheme had meant a saving of 50,000 lives a year. —Mr. A. M. Myers, Mayor of Auckland. The members of the Prisoners’ Aid Association not only assist ex-prisoners to lead useful lives, but they perform a good service to the community by relieving it of the cost of supporting these men in gaol, and incidentally of the trouble caused by them immediately starting to prey on society again. Take my word for it, there is nothing so costly to the State as the criminal at large.— Captain Neitenstein, Comptroller - General of Prisons, N.S.W. Nothing has struck me more in my experience of criminal eases than the easy and tolerant tone with which this offence of cargo broaching is spoken of and dealt with.— Mr. Justice Denniston. « * * * Some outcry has been raised owing to the employment of the inmates of Beil’s Island as fishermen, on the supposition that they would interfere with the traders. That supposition is quite unfounded. The requirements of the Army itself will take all the fish that are caught, and if any are put on the market they will be sold at the regular rates, and no one will suffer.— Commissioner McKie, of the Salvation Army. The Christchurch people have probably come to the conclusion that George Munro was not the fool they took him for.— Mr. G. S. Munro, late Exhibition Manager. Those who make trouble are unhappy themselves and a fountain of unhappiness to others, while those who take trouble arc not only a source of happiness to others, but to themselves also.— Lord Avebury. * ♦ ♦ * At the present time the policy of the new Auckland Tramways management is to run everything on the skinflint principle.— Mr. C. J. Parr, Auckland City Council. * * * * A possible reason for the present lack of men was that the ministry was underpaid. Educated men would never enter a profession in which they could not make a living.— Mr. Thornton, of Um Jc Aute Association.

In the event of a conflict with Japan the United States would need a million troops to garrison the Pacific coast, and a million for the Atlantic, while if a great Power overwhelmed the navy, only a siege could expel 30,000 of the enemy if they landed on Montauk Point (on the extreme east of Long Island, close to New York). — General Frederick Grant, U.S.A. • • • • There will be no party when the Premier brings his Bill for helping Friendly Societies before the House. All will be ready to assist those whose aim is making provision for old age and sickness. — Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P. * * * * If the British Empire was to progress as they hoped it would, it must give consideration to its own children. The public men in the Old Country did not realise their responsibilities in this particular respect, or they would go in for preferential trade within the British Empire.— Sir J. Ward. • • « • No Asiatics, yellow or brown, could assimilate to our civilisation or enter into any organic unity with us as a community. A nation with irreconcilable racial elements can only be unhappy and full of discord.— Mr. C. A. Paterson, M.A., LL.B., formerly of Madras. Some legislation was required that would give the public confidence in the men who were auditing the accounts of public companies and corporations, and a very valuable Bill would be placed before Parliament at the next session.— Mr. P. Heyes, at the Annual Dinner of the Accountants’ and Auditors’ Association. ><> have the country prosperous the Government must do all it could to settle the people on the land, and develop the railway policy, so as to give reasonable facilities to those who did settle on the land. — Sir J. Ward. I think the labourer is worthy of his hire, and I don’t think that the Salvation Army should rest until every man gets all the salary he is allowed to draw, and that is no more than will keep his body and soul together.— Commissioner McKie, of the Salvation Army. I have always enough. So many people want so much. I have spent £20,000 over my Mayoralty in addition to the £lO,OOO allowed by the Corporation.—> The Lord Mayor of London. * * * * After my experience in Christchurch I have eome to the conclusion that in conducting any undertaking involving the expenditure of public money voluntary assistance is distinctly vicious. If it is necessary to obtain assistance from the public select your men and beware of volunteers. — Mr. G. S. Munro, late General Manager Christchurch Exhibition. The new baths at Rotorua would accommodate one thousand bathers per diem, and it was anticipated that they would yield an income of from ten to twelve thousand pounds per annum. The tourist traffic in the district was increasing with rapidity, eighteen thousand five hundred persons having travelled ironr Auckland to Rotorua last year in addition to those that had arrived by other routes. — Sir J. Ward. * * *. * If a man wants a farm at the Upper Hutt or Mungaroa, he must pay a very high figure for the land—as high a rental as from 50/ to 70/ an acre. The dairy land in some parts is now nearly all cut up for roads and building purposes.— Mr. Skerrett, KA). « • • « Consmnption took many years to run its course, and the Government could not take a patient by the scruff of the neck and isolate him in an institution. — Dr. Mason, of Christchurch. You have got one of the grandest countries that God has given to a people, and with proper legislation and with proper men to control and guide you, you ought to be one of the mightiest nations on the face of the earth. — Commissioner McKie, Salvation Army. « • • «. Once the Main Trunk Railway was done, there would be more money available for other lines, but the Government was determined to do more during tho next five years in reading tho backbloeka, —Sir J. Ward. • - —

Anybody could send a complaint the papers, easting a slur upon anybody) else, and to go into sueh a matter would be creating a precedent upon which everything in the papers would, have to be investigated.— Mr. J. R. Morrison, Chairman Christchurch Regatta Club. • • • » It is the earnest wish of the Te Auto Association that the Maori may occupy, a high level in every branch of life.— Mr. J. Thornton, President Te Ante Association. * * * • It was a disgrace that the amount of erime among young folk was making a juvenile Court a necessity. It spoke very little for parental control.— Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M. I would rather read a good love yarn than read the Farm Labourers’ Union demands. — Mr. C. Wood, Farm Labourer. » * ♦ • Some day the last straw will be put on the head-teacher, and his back will break. — Mr. P. M. Mackay, Chairman Auckland City Schools’ Committee. It would never do to ignore the value of religious teaching, for religion taught one’s duty to his fellow-men. The religious training of the churches was of great value. It was important that their ehiluren should oe taught to recognise the Supreme Being.— Sir J. Ward. Consumption was communicable only, at short range, and was spread in nearly, every ease by the sputum. The safest place against consumption was inside the sanatorium.— Dr. Mason, of Christchurch. « * * * Speaking generally, the Maori is a better man to-day than he was ten years ago. Public opinion, which the association set itself to educate, has been raised, to a higher level. He is now a better liver, a better worker, a better citizen, than he was then. He drinks less, and is better housed and better clad. 1 Hrs children are better educated, and when they eome to years of discretion they are found seeking useful spheres in life for themselves. — Mr. J. Thornton, President Te Aute Association. It would be extremely hard to provide a workable remedy for sweating, but experimental legislation was justifiable, owing to the wretched condition of tne workers. — Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary. » • • • The greatest reward a man could get for bravery was the Victoria Cross, and he believed that the action of Miss Donaldson in rescuing a child from a burning building at the time of the fire at the Woolston Orphanage reflected more credit upon her than in many cases where the Victoria Cross had been won. —His Excellency the Governor. .*» * » • Increased land settlement had enormously increased the exports of the country. The land tenures of the country were settled for many years to eome by the Act passed last session. Still today £77,000,000 worth of land was held by freeholders, and there was no intention to take it from them.-— Sir J. Ward. # * * * It is noticeable that a consignment of Oregon timber has been landed at Auckland. This is, I understand, to be follower by larger and regular shipments in the future. — Mr. IV. A. Nathan, President Auckland Chamber of Commerce. • • • • On many of the so-called roads in tire North of Auckland vehicles were often seen embedded up to their hubs, and, generally, the plight in which the settlers were placed might be described as “cruel.” — Mr. L. J. Bagnall, Auckland Chamber of Commerce. ( • * * » p. Tressider is, indeed, a good fellow, and he made a big bid for the race.—W iltiain Webb, World’s Champion Sculler. , * • • • They in Australia did not know distinctions between Germans and Englishmen. They were jiist as glad to see Germans ax Englishmen eome to Australia. There was room in Queensland for many more Germans. — Mr. Kids tori. Premier of Queensland. »•. * • Well, 1 did my best, anyway. Webb is a jolly sight better than I thought Was. — Richard Tressider.

It appears inevitable that the surrounding boroughs and road districts must soon be merged in a “Greater Auckland,” with economies in administration and unification of purpose and interests affirmed by this Chamber as desirable when so ably outlined and advocated by his Worship the Mayor and his councillors.—Mr. N. A. Nathan, President Auckland Chamber of Commerce. • • • • I have no sympathy with the giun industry. It has been the curse, in the form of disease, of the Maoris of the North. It has been found by medical men that about 50 per cent, of the Maoris of the North have tuberculosis. The diggers reside in wretched houses, ana work most of the time in the wet.— Rev. 11. Hawkins, Maori Missionary. Under the new Sale of Food and Drugs Act, the regulations as to tea are much more stringent than formerly, and as a consequence only the better classes of tea will be able to come into the Dominion.—Hr. A. A. Rtckerton, Government Analyst for Canterbury. He combated the statement that the Government had increased the taxation, quoting figures to show how much the taxation had been reduced—on the railways by £850,000; post office, £275,000; Customs, £405,000; and abolition of sheep tax, £20,000 —a total reduction of £l,sso,ooo.— iSir -J. Ward. « « « w Our defences are slowly improving, and if war is averted for a decade they will be in a better condition than ever before. — Mr. W. H. Tojt, U.S. Secretary for War. Upwards of 200,000 acres in the Bay of Islands belonged to natives. Most of that land was lying idle, and the progress of. the Maoris was much impaired *>y the evil of these idle lands.— Mr. Horace Williams. « » * # They were at the present time making independent. lines of railway besides extension, and on these £1,200,000 was expended last year and during this year out of the Public Works fund, and with the £BOO,OOO transferred from the Consolidated Revenue the amount would reach £2,Boo,ooo.— Sir .J. Ward. * * • • He asked the people to judge the Government upon the actual results of toe laws it passed.— Sir -J. Ward. • * * . The Maori mothers did not have the robust health of their ancestors, and as a result their offspring suffered. In these days there were cow’s milk, tinned milk, and the various tinned foods to complicate, matters. If the European goffered as a result of ignorance in the proper use of these alternate foods, the Maori suffered still more.— Dr. Te Rangi Hiroa, of the Te Ante Association. New Zealand probably cannot add a great deal to what we already know about consumption from a medical point of view, but she. can make a very considerable contribution to the congress by showing what you are doing in the way of preventing tuberculosis by your social legislation.— Mr. Paul Kennedy, of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. * ♦ * * What had been particularly gratifying to him was to find that the Chatham Island Maoris had become a race of hard workers. Ever since the land had been individualised and each man had .feegun to work for himself, the prosperity .of the group seemed to have increased. Everybody seemed to share in this condition of things.— Or. Pomare, Native Health Officer.