Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 9, 30 August 1911, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

Hie Call to Action, y<-w OME time when you are over on VflL the Challenger the bugle may sound the call to action. You will see men rushing about, but von will not know what it all means. l’»ut the crew knows. Every man from the captain to the youngest laddie knows tluit it i? a call to action, and that there is a place in the action that he, and he alone, can AH. When the bugle sounds hut a call to action he knows that he has got to drop what he is doing, and be at his post. If he is not at his post the fact that he is absent will quickly be known. — t'hi>’f Petty Officer Welsh, 11.M.5. Challenger. Political Brilliance. In Parliament they had ‘'guards” and ‘stokers.” He himself was a political stoker, and occasionally put on coals of fire and made matters very warm.— Mr. P d. Wright, M.P, A Popular Club. Takapuna is the most popular club in t • Dominion. 1 recommend the member f-.r Wellington South to pay it a visit. 1 do not know whether he would get out alive or not, but I do know’ he would have a good day’s sport.— Mr. Glover, MP. The Coming Storm. The Ruapehu is rapidly nearing these shore--, and in a few days the calm and peace that has reigned in this august Chamber will disappear, and we will be engaged in something more than the licensing of land agents. — Mr. Russell, MP. Fat People. Wellington i> the most unpopular town in the country for people owning their own homes. Row after row', street after street, there they are houses all rented by people at high rents from peoplefat people.— Mr. La u reason, M.P. Too Much Moisture. ( limntic differences such as heat and Cold du not affect wood-blocking to any extent, the great trouble being expansion owing to moisture.— Mr. Morton, City Engineer. Wellington. * * 41 * Government Insurance. The financial position is most satisfactory. The changes, however, that are made from time to time in the legislation regarding compensation to workmen. which constitutes the chief business of the bran di. render it difficult to get the premiums on a scientific basis, and with the exception of those for the more important industries they are still in a ii’"! • or less experimental stage. The position is also complicated owing to the fact that the intense competition obtaining in the business has in several important trades occasioned the reduction of the rates to a basis that is unprofitable. — Mr. J. H. Richardson, Government I nsurance Commissioner. A Happy Omen. The natives as a whole are becoming more and more temperate every year. The drunken orgies that were once common are, in a great measure, things of the past.— Mr. T. IV. Fisher, Under-Sec-retary, Native Department. Land end City. The settlement of the people on the I uni was a good object, but they had in many cases paid too high a price for it, and one was forced to the conclusion that some of the Government’s land-ac-quiring energy could be much more profitably directed to fostering those industries which employers and employees alike are well equipped to prosecute.— Air. J. B. I.a u reason. Site and Foresight. A broad and farseeing view should be taken of this question, and provision made for the erection of the University <»n a site that will be as central as posable not only for the city as at present, but for the Greater Auckland that is to • J- Ralph, president Auckland VHizens’ League, i

The Voice of Protection. Whilst an incessant demand had been made for less work, shorter hours, and more pay, the foreign manufacturer had been pouring his goods into the country, to the value of millions sterling annually, and thereby not only depleting the country of much of its created wealth, but discouraging the expansion of many industries, which, during the past 30 years had been struggling into existence. —Mr. J. Frostick, President Canterbury Employers’ Association. The Polynesians. The Polynesians are a fine race, and it would be a sad thing if they were to perish. In order that they may live, attention will have to be paid to their health, and to the prevention of many diseases that are now rife in all the South Sea Islands.— Sir Robert Stout.

Sons of Erin. Point Erin bad old associations, as it was the mime on the Crown grant to Mr. Campbell in the early forties. Naturally. the name of Erin appeals to myself, seeing that I am partly of Irish descent. Apart from that, however, I rather like the idea of perpetuating the name under which the Crown grant was made, it being also the old title of a country from which so many worthy colonial sons have sprung. — Mr. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland. • < • • Rifle Shooting. The standard of military rifle shooting in the Dominion is somewhat behind the times, but with the promised co-operation of the executive of the Dominion Rifle Association and of presidents of rille clubs, and the experience that will have been gained by the Bisley team which has gone Home this year. 1 have no doubt that we shall soon be able to make it more up-to-date. — General Godlcy. What About the Landlord? If the employer and worker could me d and fairly discuss the different matters in dispute the result would be greater confidence in each other, increased trade, better wages and a pleasing advance in all branches of the industries of the Dominion. — Mr. H. Pearce, Canterbury Employers’ Association. Bad Foundations. Subsidences in roadway-, art* not the fault of the paving material, whether wood or asphalte. Many folks seem to think that a depression in streets is caused by the wear and tear of the paying. whereas in 99 cases out of 100 it is the foundation which is at fault.—Mr Morton, Citv Engineer, Wellington. • * • • When Utopia Arrives. Honest workers were fellow citizens with their employers, anil should be treated as such, and should never be exploited.—Mr. J. Frostick.

Councils and Contracts. We feel it is too important, in the interest of public health, that the laying of pipes should be done by Council workman, so that there is no reason to scamp cementing the joints or for pitting in a defective pipe. Our experience in other parts of the city has not been too good in the matter of laying drains by contract.—Mr. C. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland. • « « • Women and Drink. It is greatly to be regretted, but nevertheless it seems abundantly clear, that the female sex is becoming more and more addicted to the abuse of alcoholism, and this is the more to be deplored inasmuch as its effects on the rising generation will be most disastrous, for the inheritance of any neurosis is more potent for ill if it be transmitted through the female line.— Dr. IV. E. Jones, Victoria. Utility Horses. I wish that the racing people would consider the matter more, and try and make the thoroughbred a utility horse, as well as a racehorse. — Mr. O. Hatrken, Tara naki.

A Hard Job. 1 have had a few jobs in my time, from watching before the mast to Minister of Railways, and I never want a harder one than this. I will not be sorry when my time comes to hand it over to someone else. But I don’t worry. If anyone, be coming Minister of Railways, worries, his life is going to be a very short one. indeed.— lion. J. .1. Millar. A Racing Parasite. In the abolition of the bookmaker the House has done something that will entitle it to the gratitude of the generations to come. I hope that individual will never again be let loose on the innocent population of New Zealand. He was a parasite on the racing community.— Mr. D. Buick, M.P. Not in Our Time. If Canada ever does become part of the United States, it will not be in our time. The descendants of tin* loyalists who were forced out of Rochester after the revolution still regard Americans as bad boys, and it will be another hundred years or so before that feeling is forgotten.- -Mr. J. J*. Sousa.

Treaties and Navies. It seems t<> me that the day is yet very far off when the safety of the Empire can be secured by peace conferences and treaties. Not that 1 wish to undervalue such for one moment ; but 1 feel that to reap their full advantage Britain must !Ih* in a position to enforce them. — Mr. Frank Wilson. Premier Western Australia. A Good Hobby. Gardening is a hoobby, just as people have a hobby in knocking a ball about with a stick or by toe. It is a sclent i lie recreation congenial to niy tastes. — Pro ft ’sso r Thomas. * * * • Root and Branch. What 1 say is, that if you want to do away with racing root it up; sweep it away root and branch. Mr. Glover, M.P. Entrance and Exit. The incoming Mayor is always received with ac la mat ion, but the outgoing Mayor hardly receives a meed of thanks. Mr. ('. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland. Intimidating the Cattle. The people of ( hristcliurrh are all agog to see what slaughter the Leader of the Opposition is going to make, and what happens. Why. we hear that he is roaring about at Akaroa, with a population of 250 people and four cows.—j/r, I.au reason, M.P. Romeo s Apothecary. I have never been to the Cook group, hut 1 have visited Fiji. and I know that there tin* Government medical men have had the greatest possible difficulty in breaking down prejudices and in trying to secure the confidence of the natives in dealing with disease. The natives there call a dorter the dispenser of death, and medicine the water ot death, ami in some of the islands when a native is being taken to the hospital he gives up hope and considers tu.it he is being taken to his death. — Mr. 11. Poole. M.P. Made Sure of His Ground. Now that he was oner more bark within the three mile limit, and well within x .e territory of New Zealand, he supposed that those people who had said, ‘•Will he come back?” would be satisfied that the surmise, perhaps the hopes, or some of them were not to l»e realised. —- Sir Joseph Ward. . w « • Bullets and Pellets. Let us do our best for New Zealand as New Zealanders, and never mind the disparagements of critics. They have tried their bullets and their pellets, but with what result? They have not bit the bull's-eye once; no. not once. — Sir. James C'arMl.