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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 3, 18 January 1911, Page 55

“Whoever weaved the tradition that the Germans were a stolid people could never have travelled by a Rhine steamer on a. summer’s day. Why, they sang and laughed and waved handkerchiefs to passing steamers in a manner that quite

surpassed any Bank Holiday crowd on the Thames. The men nursed the women on their knees and gleefully kissed their neighbour's wife. Every extravagance of a fete day was indulged in, but with absolute good nature on the part of both men and women.”—"Golden Days in Many Lands,” by Winifred H. Leys. London.. Methuen, 10/6 net.

At a meeting of the Medical Society the secretary read a letter from the consul of one of our far away possessions urging the need of a resident physician in his district. In the moment of silence that followed the reading, a young man in the, hall arose and said modestly: “I wish you would put me down for that place, sir. It sounds good to me. My practice here died last night,”