Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 9, 26 August 1908, Page 3

Sayings of the Week

The class of landholder who had grown profitable vegetables on this land, which .was supposed to bo useless except for gum-working, was the kind of man wanted in New Zealand, and more of them could be done with. — Sir -Joseph Ward. • • • • On the day the first through train arrived from Wellington, Auckland entered upon a new era; a path had been made by which the rest of New Zealand could Come to see the wonders of Auckland. Auckland was about to be appreciated. — Hon. G. Fowlds. • • • • There was a possibility of an understanding with Germany in the direction of limiting the future building of new ships and arranging the proportion for each.—.lfr. 11. Lloyd-George, Chancellor pf the Exchequer. ,•• • • Np Government which was likely to be in power would depart in any degree from a naval policy securing the country effectively from an outside invasion.— Hr. Winston Churchill. • ■» • • This is the first occasion upon which I have had the pleasure of having any comments taken down in a substitution for shorthand, such as you are doing now l>y the touch of the fingers, without the advantage of eyesight, and I would like to express the great pleasure I feel in finding that you are able to use your energies in such a useful, and satisfactory manner. — Sir Joseph Ward to Doric Algie, a shorthand reporter from the Institute for the Blind. • • * • To be thorough was to attain to excellence; to aim at cheapness generally led to bad workmanship. and often to sweating. By setting up thoroughness as its goal, New Zealand might become the ideal manufacturing country in the world.—Hon. Dr. Findlay. * » » » Polygamy was not generally practised in New Guinea, and, indeed, was rather condemned by native opinion — mainly, perhaps, because women were scarce in some villages, and the coveted position of village policeman was never given to a polygamist.—T7ie Bishop of New Guinea. • • • • He hoped that in the near- future Auckland would have a large agricultural and industrial hall, large enough to take in all the displays now being shown in windows in the city, 'so as to concentrate the exhibition, and also provide one of the most valuable educational mediums a community could have. — Sir Joseph Ward. st. • * • I hope the Thames natives will not die out, but by leading healthy, industrious lives, will become an active and intelligent race.— Sir Robert Stout. * * * * I believe that whether Mr. Hall-Jones expects the High Commissionership or not, lie deserves it, because of his long and faithfid services to the country.— Air. T. Mackenzie, M.P. * » * » J think the foreshore of Naples is just about as dirty as one can imagine. They talk about Newmarket being dirty, but I can assure you that it is a Paradise to some of the older cities.— Mr. G. F. Borgolte, of the Newmarket Borough Cojpicil. • « • « If it had not been for the State sawmill af. Hakahi, this side of Taumarunui, they would have been in a very much worse position than they were now. This mill, the first owned by the State, had proved very successful.— Hon. IF. HallJones. • « • « When the Main Trunk line was completed, ho hoped to see Aucklanders going down and entering into business competition, for competition was the life of commercialism.— r Sir Joseph Ward. « a « • Tlie marriage contract among the Papuans was an entirely business arrangement, and was terminable practically at will. A husband had only to refuse to oat the food his wife had prepared Wid she would take it aa a decree of

divorce, and would leave at once. So far as New Guinea was concerned, marriage problems were not likely to bo difficult for a long time to come.— The Bishop of New Guinea. • • • • Some men think that poverty is a dreadful burden, and that wealth leads to happiness. What do they know about it? They know only one side; they imagine the other. I have lived both, and I know there is very little in wealth that can add to human happiness.-— Mr. Andrew Carnegie. • • » • The Board should steadily set its face against the splitting up of a school into two inferior Schools. The greatest benefits are certainly to be derived from one well-staffed school, instead of two smaller schools, and tee sooner the public recognise that the better.— Mr. E. C. Purdie, of the Auckland Board of Education.. • • » » Nelson is one of the most conservative places you could possibly get into. It has been well named sleepy hollow. Napier is another.— Mr. A. Rosser. When the Irish were appealing to the civilised world on behalf of Home Rule there should ba no crime or outrage. They ought to show by the wise exercise of their present powers that they were worthy of larger powers. — Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne. « • » « A long line of pure breeding secured a fixity of type and the power of transmitting their characteristics to their progeny, which an animal of short pedigree did not possess!.-—Air. Mansell, of the Sheep-breeders’ Association. • • • • Any fellow who really wants io sec universal service avoided should at once, constitute himself a recruiter for the territorial force. — Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. • • • • New Zealand could produce and manufacture just as cheaply and effectually as countries abroad. It was by supporting local industries and helping our enterprising manufacturers that we could hope to increase the prosperity which had been shining upon this country for a number of years. ,Sir Joseph Ward. • * • • The coming of the American fleet showed liow- insignificant was that portion of the British fleet pretending to guard our shores.— Cardina I Moran. « « • « At present it costs sixpence to collect every shilling subscribed to charities in Victoria. —- Mr. McKinnon, Victorian Attorney-General. * • • • That organised labour, under the leadership of professional agitators, was doing its best to ruin the industries of the Dominion could not be gainsaid.— air. D. Goldie, President Auckland Employers’ Association. • • • • Dr. Findlay had said a lot about the need wage for workers. The need wage for the Ministry was votes, and it was going to get them at any price, even at the price of selling the interests of the employers for the votes of the workers.— Mr. J. Miller, Auckland Employers’ Association. * * * * The colonies were pursuing their own path and their own destiny, which would not be altered in the future as the result of any struggle in Europe.— Mr. Winston Churchill. * ♦ * * In no case should fashion lead the breeder to forget that the ultimate object in breeding sheep was to produce mutton and wool nt a minimum of eost.— Mr. Mansell, of the National Sheep-breeders’ Association. • • • • These witnesses have no business whatever to be coached by the police, Mr. Tole. They must comp hero and give evidence according to their memory.— Mr. Justice Edwards. • • • • • An illustration of the petty way in which employers were harassed occurred at Palmerston, when an employer was

summoned for allowing a driver to feed two horses instead of one, the inference being that if two horses were to be fed, two men should perform the arduous task. It transpired, however, that the driver only fed the horses on alternate days, and the Judge, therefore, ordered the case to be withdrawn.— Mr. I). Goldie. • • • • He had been astonished at the high price of almost every necessary of life. Articles that were eheap at Home seemed here to be only within the reach of the rich. A tram conductor getting 00/ a week in Wellington declared that he had been better off at Home on 28/ per week. —Mr. Richard Garnett, of Yorkshire. • • • • The object of employers must necessarily be to help the Government to do Without the socialistic vote, and this could only be done by coalition of the so-called Opposition, whose principles were materially the same as those of the Government.— Mr. J. Miller, Auckland Employers’ Association. « • • • That Main Trunk line is going to mean a wonderful thing for Auckland, but, as a city, it wants just as much the completion of its North Auckland railway, and of the line from Gisborne along the East Coast.— Mr. A. T. Johnson, Otago. • « » « It was a real pleasure to work with officers of the fleet. We found them the best of good fellows.— Captain Under. * * * • I am quite certain that America is just as likely to require the assistance of the British navy as Britain is to require the assistance of the American.— Mr. Massey, IMP. • • • « It was distintcly advisable to proceed with the development of the deep levels, as what had been done in this direction in the past certainly pointed to the fact that better country existed at the lower levels than what had yet been prospected. —Mr. Warne, Manager of the Waiotahi mine. » » » * The absolute majority is all right for the cities, ns the electors can easily get to the polling booths. But in the country constituencies we are afraid that the great preponderance of voting power will be secured to the small townships.— Mr. TV. H. Merries, M.P. • * • • A sacrificing priesthood and baptismal regeneration on the one hand, and the Presbyterian conception of the ministry on the other, are absolutely incompatible. —Rev. Dr. Gibb, Presbyterian minister, Wellington. » « • • There is no doubt as to the value of the North Island Main Trunk line to the Dominion as a whole, and I am convinced that it will prove one of the greatest factors we have known in pushing the development of the country through which it runs to its full capacity. Already considerable settlement and development of the resources of the country has closely followed the rail-head. — Hon. TV. Hall-Jones. « * « • With reduced timber supplies throughout the world, prices must advance, so that the longer the cutting of our timber in New Zealand was delayed the greater would be its rise in value, and the country would get the benefit of that advance. On the whole, ho did not look upon the importation of timber from outside as an unmixed evil. — Ron. R. McNab. • * • • He believed that there were in New Zealand more different kinds of flowers than most people knew about. Altogether, there were about 1,400 flowering

plants, and the odd thing was that 1,140 of those plants were found in no other place but New Zealand. The reason for. this was probably owing to New Zealand having been for so long isolated from other parts of the world, which had allowed the country io develop a great, many special forms that were now recog nised as species.— Mr. G. M. Thomson, Dunedin. • • • a Our lesson has conie from the glorious traditions of (he British navy. —Admiral Sperry. • • • • As an old naval officer I was pleased at the exhibition of the fleet coming here, for it spoke highly of your skill that you should bring this big fleet across, ant arrive in the manner you did. — Sir Harry Rawson, Governor of N.S.VV. a a a a The proper standard of the American navy was 16 battleships commissioned in the Pacific and 16 in the Atlantic, with eight in each ocean held in reserve. —Admiral Evans. • « • » He wished io say, quite candidly, that neither Ibr. Bel! nor any Government geologist was going to bo used as a mining expert to advise speculators. Gold mining was speculative, and should bo carried on by private, enterprise. Ho was not prepared to advise his colleagues to go in for gold mining.— Hon. J. Mc - Gowan. • • • • What was wanted was the reformatory system of industrial farms, near large centres. Prevention was better than cure. Men should not be cast out of prison without money or means of subsistence, as was the case now. — Mr. Hogg, M.P. a * a a There is no doubt that Mr. A. M. Myers is the best Mayor that Aucßla’hd has ever had. He is a practical business man, and he brings energy and experience to bear on all branches of municipal works. He is doing a lot to keep Auckland in tlie front rank of the cities of New Zealand.— Mr. J. Vigor-Brown, Mayor of Napier. As socialism has been such a success' in Auckland, I think the socialists should lie given 50,000 acres of bush land in North Auckland to clear. They could then establish a colony of their own, and be safe out of harm’s way.— Mr. R. Hall, of the A. and P. Association. » « » » I have often thought that the man who sits on this Bench has to bo more than human if lie wants to know what is true. —Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M. • • » » The letters posted in the Dominion last year numbered 854 millions, an in--crease of 6} millions Over 1906. The total number of all articles posted was 1254 millions.— Sir Joseph Ward. • • » » If by the Historic Episcopate is understood some mysterious supernatural power with which the bishop is invested —well, Presbyterians cannot away with ib.—Rev. Dr. Gibb, Presbyterian minister, Wellington. » • « * An agitator declared that lie would, force a farmer’s own son to join tlie union, even if by so doing he risked breaking up the home, and when asked what a farmer was to do who Could not pay union rates, the agitator, with brutal candour, replied, “That’s his funeral.’’ —Mr. D. Goldie. He believed that the bulk of the. f.iriu workers were as pleased with the judgment as the farmers, and he had heard of instances last evening in the district where the workers, when the news got

abroad, had got on their bicycles and joined their mates to rejoice that they stall had their freedom. — Mr. D. Jones, on the Farm Labourers’ Dispute. • see It is the ambition of a well-constitated Woman to be a happy wife and mother of a rollicking family, and the family life of both is the happiest state that can ever be attained by either in this world. —Mr. (J. Turner, Blenheim. • « • e President Roosevelt’s administration had been regarded as owe of the most successful, and the people were willing to rate him as one of the greatest of tire Presidents. They had in a sense displaced Washington by putting Lincoln as the most prominent American, and President Roosevelt was a pretty close second. — Mr. E. T. Edmonds, B.A. « • » • There is no doubt, in my mind, that 'Auckland will be the best and finest city in the Dominion. The population is growing by leaps and bounds, and it is as hard to get an empty house there as it is in Napier. — Mr. J. Vigor-Brown, Mayor of Napier.