Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 20, 13 May 1908, Page 3

Sayings of the Week

He had heard someone say recently that the Government was going on in a spirit of Compromise. Well, he believed that epmpronrise, if properly engineered and well carried out, was one of the finest things that they could do in many walks of life. — Sir Joseph Ward.

The back-block settler has a great deal to contend with. There are difficulties in his path that do not enter into other people’s lives. He is often burdened with much anxiety, owing to bush fires, drought, or floods, and he is often at his wits’ end to know how to make both ends meet. In view of all these circumstances, he needs all the encouragement that it is possible for us to give him.— Mr. J. Mackenzie, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

There is a large field in New Zealand for deep alluvial gold mining, if only the best modern machinery now available and up-to-date methods of working are used.— Mr. If. Montague Smyth, of the Ross Goldfields Co.

There was not a member of Parliament who knew 5 per cent, of the roads he was voting expenditure for, and the present system was bad in the extreme, opening the way as it did to wire-pulling of the worst sort.— Mr. IF. 7'’. Massey, M.P.

The country required development and assistance, and he believed that it could carry on its public works on the same basis as last year with perfect safety.— Sir Joseph IFard.

He had been brought up in a school in the Old Country where the Bible was taught, and the enmities which were then created existed at the present day. If ever he returned to his own land he knew these school enmities would be recommenced. upon his reappearance.— Mr. IF. Nott, Chairman Mt. Cook School Committee.

Our present scheme can hardly be called immigration; it might rather be called a scheme for enabling residents of the Dominion to bring out their friends from Home at a little cheaper rate than that which would otherwise have to be paid. These new arrivals are adding to the capital of the country, and the amounts which some of them bring with them are very considerable. — Hon. J. McGowan.

Wages are raised 39 per cent., and now the control of the hours that the apprentice is to give his employer in return for his wages is to be taken from the employer. Only one thing remains to the employer as a hopeful solution of the difficulties, and that is to give up the business, if he wishes to die peacefully.— Mr. G. Fraser, of George Fraser & Sons. If merchants go into the position, they must recognise the advantages and benefits that the port of Bristol offer, and a trial shipment will turn out so satisfactory that trade by this service will enormously increase in a very short time.—■ Mr. W..J. Kent, N.Z. Representative of the Port of Bristol. The total post and telegraph receipts for 1907-8 were £831,654, which provided justification for the statement he made some time ago, that it would not be long before the revenue from the Post and Telegraph Department reached a million sterling. That was a wonderful record, considering the concessions that had been made.— Sir Joseph Ward. There, was no industry and no calling in New Zealand at present where young unmarried men were in such an affluent condition as the agricultural and pastoral industries. "Men could go into the back country and, as the result of six months’ good, sound, healthy work, need not do a hand’s'turn for the rest of the year. — Mr. 11. D. inland, at Christchurch. • « « « By the way, travel teaches you one thing—that Scotland has given the world three good things. You find them everywhere —porridge, whisky, and ‘Auld Lang Syne.”— Mr. Kcir Hardie, M.P.

They should consider the country wants equally with city requirements, and the interchange of teachers between town and country should be of benefit not only to the residents in the country districts and in the towns, but also to the teachers who took part in that work. —Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.P., Chairman Otago Education Board.

What with tramway accidents and motor cars, an ambulance waggon is becoming more and more a necessity.— Mr. J. J. Holland, of Auckland.

We must foster the strongest feelings of a mutual confidence and respect, and preserve for future generations, by methods of education and unity of action, everything leading towards the greatest ideals of civilisation in a noble heritage, founded on the highest patriotism and sympathy.— The Prince- of Wales.

It was to be regretted that some special provision was not made for those who, having occupied the Mayoral chair, were desirous of keeping up their interest in the municipality.— Mr. J. H. Upton.

The temperance party in my country, which is half a million strong, very much objects to the present system of municipal control.— Mr. Johan Hansson, of Gothenburg.

The present was a very dangerous time in New Zealand to attempt to increase the wages of farm labourers or to regulate the industry. They were in a crisis at present—a very dangerous period in their financial position. They had been subjected to a large drop in wool, and apparently there was a drop in meat and stock of all descriptions.— Mr. H. D. A eland, on the Farm Labourers’ dispute.

~ Last year the total amount that the Government borrowed’ in New Zealand was £340,000, and of that* amount they spent £310,000 in the purchase of estates.—Sir Joseph Ward.

The coming session would be held at Government House, and as members would have to sit on cane-bottomed chairs and do without desks and other customary comforts and conveniences, they would not feel inclined for either allnight sittings or long sittings of any kind.— Mr. IV. F. Massey, M.P. With the assistance of the equable climate of Auckland, some of the poorest land up here could be made equal to some of the best land in the South. Some of the Auckland people, as well as many of those from the South, were finding that out every day.—3/r. Mackenzie, Commissioner of Crown Lands. It took years of labour to stock Lake Wakatipu with trout, and it was netted to death in a very short time. Netting is, in my opinion, entirely opposed to the best interests of angling.— Mr. T. E. Donne, of the Tourist Department. A man once went bankrupt and paid ]9/fi in the £, which was satisfactory. He went, on again for th rd* years, went bankrupt again, and paid Gd. in the £, and then said. ‘‘That makes 20/,’’ which wasn’t either obvious or satisfactory.— Mr. Janies Ashcroft. Official Assignee. . .

In reviewing the progress of the New Zealand constitution during the past year, we have indeed cause fox- satisfaction and pride. Our members have increased by some 1,200, and eight new lodges have been opened.— -Lord Plunket, Grand Master N.Z. Freemasons.

Many of the poorer classes refused to go to the ordinary churches, but they could be induced to enter the Mission Hall. There was much need _for such work in Wellington. Right in the heart of the city there were slums—he knew, for he had seen them—and ixi these quarters immorality v and vice were predominant. They were not doing their duty as Christians if they left these black spots impenetrated.— Mr. IV. H. Walter, of St. Peter’s Mission, Wellington.

He never heard of anything so likely to raise Cain in a family as money, nor anything that would so smooth over trouble as love. — Colonel Denny.

The public of this country are imperialists to a man, and New Zealand is not likely to have any interests really apart from those of the Empire "as a whole.— Mr. IV. F. Massey, M.P.

The train will be running between Wellington and Auckland before 31 st December, 1908. — Hon. IV. Hall Jones.

Weak brethren, careless ones, and even bad, there must be in every community, but if the majority of a lodge are determined to encourage and honour those who set a high example—even though that majority fear they cannot attain to it themselves—the weak will be strengthened, the careless interested, and the bad improved.— Lord Plunket, Grand Master, N.Z. Freemasons.

The public rightly looked for a highlyeducated clergy, but they would not pay for its education nor support it properly. People preferred a clergyman to be married, and they could starve him out if they did not like him. His income was stationary when perhaps the cost of living had increased. — Rev. C. IV. Carrington, Christ’s College, Christchurch.

■ The German colonies in the South Seas imported German goods to the value of £150,000, and the prosperity of the islands would increase within the next decade, when the copra trade was fully developed.— Herr Dernberg, Colonial Director, Germany. I consider prison camps the best and most humane method of dealing with men who have any desire to reform. Many of the prisoners who have been sent to the four camps have reformed, and since completing their sentences have taken contracts as free mon for carrying out similar work.— Hon. J. McCowan. * * * * I hope to .see the money spent hero in anticipation of the arrival of the American fleet spent as far as possible in the permanent beautification of the city. — Mr. Hughes, Lord Mayor of Sydney. « * * * It is of no use converting Great Britain into a very Garden of Eden if your fence lets in the wolves that will ravage it.— Lord Rosebery. » * * * ’The origin of the term bankruptcy is peculiar. The old Italian money-lenders of the fourteenth or fifteenth century used to have benches (banca) in the market place, and when one defaulted his bench was broken up (ruptus) ; so banca ruptus simply means a broken bench. — Mr. James Ashcroft, Official Assignee.

Tn licensing netting the acclimatisation societies are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage.— Mr. T. E. Donne. With the progress of the Union fleet was shown the progress of this Dominion. It was one of the finest coastal fleets in the world.— Hon. J. A. .Millar. • * • • While Glasgow, with its million in habitants, was unable to maintain a sipall fleet of penny steamers. New Zealand had the business end of several great lines trading with the Old Country, ami had a great company of its own, with several subsidiary lines.— Colonel Denny. I wish you newspaper people, instead of praising up the splendid climate and excellent soil, which no doubt we have in New Zealand, would stick long pins into the fruitgrowers ami stir them up. —Mr. IV. J agues, Government Canning Expert.