IN THIS ISSUE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 1

IN THIS ISSUE.

The Week In Review 1 A Famous Soldier 2 Sayings of the Week 3 News of the Dominion 4 Personal Notes 5 Soldiers in the Making 7 On the Golf Links 8 Boxing IO Ttie Chess Board 11 Turf Gossip 12 -Music and Drama 13 Hints to Shoppers . Iff Our illustrations Iff ILLUSTRATIONS— Chief Scout Visits New Zealand.... 17 Wellington Shipping Scenes IS Christehurtth Holiday Resorts 13 Fatal Accident in Hawke’s 8ay.... 20 Wanganui's New Convent 21 Golf nt Otahuhu 22 Ashore on the Coast of Cornwall.... 23 Chinese Gambling Den Raided 24 Auckland Society of Arts 25

In the Public Eye 2ff Karaka Bay, Wellington 27 Auckland Society of Arts 2S Open-air School in London 29 labour War in Watlil £0 In the Baller Gorge 31 A Picturesque English Village.....’ 32 West Africa Evolving 33 A Mania for Building 35 Life in tbe Garden 88 No Tnimp (short story) 42 The Bookshelf 41 The "Hoodooed" Yacht 47 One of the Old Girls (short story) 51 Caroline (short story) 52 Life and Love Again (N.Z. story) 55 Children's I’nge 67 Academic Housekeeping 63 Orange Blossoms .5’ 1 Society Gossip ®2 The World of Fashion 50 Verse and Anecdotes 71 Our Funny Page 73

Free Trade there will be much more employment to be found in the British Isles, and there will be fewer people seeking to emigrate. In the opinion of many able to judge, the introduction of some measure of tariff reform into Great Britain is only a question of a few years at most. Mr Asquith’s Government shows signs already of breaking up, and as soon as the Unionists get into office fiscal reform will be the first item on their programme. Australia is faced with one of the gravest programmes possible. Iler vast unoccupied spaces must be populated. If they are not populated with white men they will most assuredly be populated by the yellow races. Which is it to be? J* v* The Late King of Denmark. The death of the King of Denmark removes from our midst one of the most democratic monarchs of modern times. From his student days he insisted on sharing the everyday life of his people. When at the university in Copenhagen he lived in student’s lodgings, and had no privileges beyond those enjoyed by other students. He began his military training in a similar manner. He was a simple private in the ranks, and shared the inarse rations of the ordinary soldier, lie was subsequently promoted to the rank of sergeant. He waited long before he ascended the throne. He saw a younger brother and a son become fullfledged monarchs while he was just an ordinary Crown Prince. He was a fine man physically and mentally. He was always at the head of any philanthropic movement, and to the last remained attached to the simple life. .Lake Comic Opera. A curious position was revealed in the course of an appeal ease that came before Mr. Justice Cooper relating to defence prosecutions. Two young men had been proceeded against by the Defence Department for failure to attend the recent Garrison Artillery Camp. The magistrate had dismissed the ease on two grounds: First, that no offence was committed until the end of the year of training; secondly, that the defendants ought to have been proceeded against under martial law. It was argued that this decision meant that anyone could choose what eamp he would attend, and so it might happen that all the officers might attend one eamp and all the men another. Also, the artillery might attend a cavalry eamp and the cavalry an artillery eamp. It was further contended that a man who had never attended a camp was still a private citizen, and so could not be amenable to martial law. Mr. Justice Cooper said that the ease had been verywell argued, but the position as it had been represented seemed very mueh like comic opera. There is no doubt that such a position would render the Aet to V large extent inoperative. J* The Toll of the Air. Aviation still claims its victims, in spite of the fact that we are repeatedly being told that modern science has rendered aerial navigation comparatively safe. At St. Louis, Missouri, an aviator named Wheeler, and his companion, named Glasser, were both killed during a flight- in an aeroplane. The machine became unmanageable in the gusty wind, ami. dashing into a telegraph pole, became entangled in the wires. Another aviator mimed Kogers was killed through a seagull obtaining control of a wire during the flight, and thus preventing Kogers from working the machine. At Brooklands two aviators were killed by the fall of the monoplane. In spite of the many improvements effected lately, the li-t of victims shows no signs of diminution. We are still a long way distant from the conquest of the air. Ct The Local Government Bill. Tile proposed Local Government Bill lias been pretty severely criticised in many quarters, but one of its most un- < ompiomi'ing critics is Dr. Newman, of Wellington. He says that the more he studies the bill the more he wants to murder it. He contends that the bill creates a dual control, and that there will be two bodies with power to raise loans and to levy rates. People are not fond of rates under any conditions, but the prospect of paying rates to two separate bodies is particularly calculated to raise the ire of the. average citizen. The doctor points out that in the early days there were nine provincial councils,

and the people soon got rid of them. The bill proposed to create twenty-four provincial councils, which would be far worse than nine. The doctor goes on to point out that the new councils will prove expensive, and that there will in all probability be a decided increase in the rates. The clause in the bill that has provoked the most adverse comment is the proposal to place part of the cost of education on the local rates. It seems to me pretty generally' admitted that the cost of education ought to be borne by the State. There has been considerable opposition to the bill from nearly every part of the Dominion, and it seems probable that considerable modifications will be necessary if the bill is to become law’. Mr. Asquith and Disestablishment.' It would appear that Mr. Asquith is not finding the question of the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church so easy' as might have been expected. It was generally regarded as a concession to certain of his followers in return for their support of Home Rule. Most people seemed to think that it was a harmless concession, unlikely to arouse either much enthusiasm or much opposition. But the proposal to devote the revenue of the church to purely secular purposes has been resented in the most unexpected quarters. Twelve Labour members have protested against the bill on the ground of injustice. Mr. Keir Hardie has done an ill-serviee by proclaiming that if the Government can take away the revenue of the Church it can no longer protest against the proposal of the Socialists to take away the property' of private individuals. He says that he will support the bill as being a first step towards the abolition of private ownership in land. Nor are the Nonconformists altogether pleased. More than one minister has pointed out that to devote the revenue of the Church to secular purposes is to strike a blow at religious influences at a time when we can ill-afford to weaken any spiritual force. The "Manchester Guardian" says that there is already considerable uneasiness in the ranks of Liberalism, and that outside the Welsh members, there is hardly a single member of the Liberal party who lias not a strong desire to substantially amend the bill. It is the proposal to divert the revenue to purely secular purposes that forms the chief stumbling block. Mr. Asquith has promised to make substantial concessions in committee. The Naval Estimates. When Mr Winston Churchill succeeded Air McKenna at the Admiralty the appointment was pretty freely’ criticised. His critics have received a surprise. He has proved himself to be a strong and resolute supporter of naval strength. Speaking in the House of Commons, he said, in view of Germany’s extra naval expenditure having created the condition foreseen by him in his recent speech, he would ask for a supplementary vote for shipbuilding. Subsequently speaking at the banquet of the Shipwrights’ Company, he said it was his duty to again ask Parliament for men, money and materials for the navy. He pointed out that it was essential that the fleet should be concentrated at a decisive spot in European waters. One of the most interesting points in Mr Churchill’s speech was his declaration that the main development of the next ten years would he the growth of an effective overseas force. The Motherland would maintain the supremacy at a decisive point, while the daughter States guarded and patrolled the rest of the Empire. JX JX Women and Strikes. A single man can enter on a strike with a light heart, but the case of a married man is very different. The married man is not able to move to other work as easily as a single man. and also the strike pay is often totally inadequate for the needs of a man with a wife aud family to support. For this reason it seems only fair that the wives should have some say in the matter of a strike. We note that the strike leaders at Waihi intend giving lectures to the wives and daughters of the men on strike on the manifold advantages to be obtained by a strike. We hope they may succeed in their efforts. It would greatly help the cause of industrial pence if, whenever the mi'n went on strike, the women also took a hand in the game, and refused to cook, or wash, or sew. or mind the house, till the men returned to work. If a strike

holiday is good for the men. so as to enable them to attend free picture shows and athletic sports, a strike holiday would also be good for the women, so as to enable them to pay calls anil to take a day or two in the country. At present the men get all the best of the deal, while the woman has to keep house on a greatly diminished income and look after children rendered more than usually peevish by the lack of proper food. If women struck against a strike, wc might see fewer strikes in our midst.