Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

Dominion Finance. THERE will be a recession in the value of money. As to this Dominion, the piling up of our public debt within the last five years is strongly condemned, and in financial circles the issue of short-dated loans is sharply criticised. Still,, it is generally recognised that we have good security to offer, and, if more money be required, ,we can confidently look to the British public to find it—at, of course, a price.— Mr. Hwtold Beauchamp Melodrama on tlie Screen. In Sydney I visited picture theatres to see the class of films the showmen ar* exhibiting in Australia. That I have been disappointed in my investigation is to put it mildly. T have seen so much bad melodrama and nonsensical so-called “comic’’ films, that the feeling left in my mind is that 1 do not wish to enter a picture theatre in Australia again.— •Mr. H. G. Ponting, F.R.G.S. Taupo Trout. . Taupo is the most wonderful place on earth for trout. Two Irishmen who came for a month caught a thousand fish. I caught three tons of trout last year, but did not fish nearly so much this year, and Only got about a ton. Believe me, the trout are magnificent this season. 1 'don’t see how they can well lie otherwise, as the feed brought down by the rivers is wonderfully good.— Colonel Moore. * • «■ • A Tremendous Octopus? The Auckland Harbour .Board, like all big public bodies, promised to become a tremendous octopus. They were loaded With many unfinancia! schemes, and if they obtained control of the ferry services the residents of Devon port would be loaded with the other enterprises of the Board.— Mr. /I. G. Quart-Icy, Devonport. ♦ * * * Maori Names. It is a singular thing that we give Maori names to places, and very few people learn to pronounce them properly.—Z/r. C. C. Kettle, S.M. North of Auckland. If the people of Auckland knew of the difficulties which the settlers in the North of Auckland had to put up with in lack of transit facilities, they woul.l never rest till the grave existing defects were remedied. — Mr. A Cochrane, [Waitemata County Council. Education Charges. They should set their faces against any proposal to make the charges of education on any other but the consolidated revenue.— Mr. A. J. Entrican, Auckland. Technical Education. Generally speaking, the woodwork and cookery classes of the manual training school are much appreciated.— Mr. George George, Director of Technical Education, Auckland. * * * * Produce for Canada. Canada wants Australasian produce, whether it comes from Australia or New -Zealand. Australia was undoubtedly losing Canadian trade simply because New Zealand was subsidising Canadian steamers and giving Canadian products preference. — Mr. Horne, Vancouver Shipping Agent. The Hard-working Ministry. The present Ministry would be known as the hard-working Ministry.— Hon. G. 'Laurenson. Namby-Pamby Idiots. If a country were worth living in it Was worth fighting for, and. that being bo, it was worth being trained to light for. As for the namby-pamby idiots who objected to lx* drilled, the sooner they took their traps and left the country for which they were not willing to fight, the better for the country. These young men. who refused to go into camp should be driven into camp and made to do double drill. The Minister for Defence had a hard row to hoe, ami local bodies should strengthen his hands.-— Mr. G. ./. Garland, Grey Lynn Borough Council.

Trades Councils and Defence. The Trades Council did not discount the necessity for defence, or say that their families, their country, or their liberties were not worth defending; but, taking into consideration the temperament of the people, an infinitely more congenial system could be evolved if it were left to voluntary service. This was a matter which transcended the technical opinion of experts. They were convinced that the compulsory scheme was inimical to the best interests of the country, both from the view of defence and the moral, social and physical welfare of the coun■vy. —A/r. />. (7. Sullivan, Canterbury Trades and Labour Council. * » » » One-sided Educ&tian. One-sided education—education with the best part, viz., religion, left outwill develop a one-sided life, and such a life will topple over, and so will any social system that is built on such lines. True civilisation requires that, not only physical and intellectual, but .also the moral and religious, well-being of people should be promoted and at least with equal care.— Archbishop Redwood.

Trade witli British Columbia. In the development of her resources—fruit culture, lumber, fisheries, and minerals —British Columbia was bound to carry a large population, and this would offer us an expanding market for butter, frozen meat, and wool, fortunately, owing to the enterprise of the Union Steam Ship Company, New Zealand was now in close touch with the Pacific Coast of North America. Victoria —a stopping place of the Canadian-Austra-lian line—was within a few hours’ steam of Vancouver, and, owing to the salubrity of its climate and the attractions it offers to sportsmen, Victoria was becoming very popular as a habitat for retired Anglo-Indians and others of the leisured class. —.Ifr. Harold Beauchamp. ... 9 Australians and New Zealanders. I say this, that a New Zealander gets on better here than an Australian does in New Zealand. There is some feeling against Australians in the Dominion. I once read a paragraph in an Ashburton paper stating: “Two Australians passed through here yesterday, but up to the present nothing has been missed.” —Mr. C. HI. Montefiorc, Sydney. * * w * Foolish Quarrels. How foolish it is to begin upsetting our ecclesiastical organisations by dises tablishment, because we are told Nonconformists have a certain numerical following in Wales in face of the fact that the whole of our religious institutions are about to be changed from top to bottom. Let us dra »■ closer together—and not quarrel with one another—to labour for a common Master and for the common good of the whole world.— Lord Hugh Cecil. Scots and the Empire. It would be a loss to the Empire if a single Scottish member were withdrawn from the Imperial Parliament.— Mr. T. M. Wood, M.P.

The Police and Pictures. He thought that some people were too ready to see impropriety in pictures. The police had not had any complaints about the pictures exhibited, and he could not say that any juvenile crime he had come across had been directly caused by the influence of the cinematograph. He was of opinion that an official censorship was neither necessary nor desirable, and that the force of public opinion was a quite sufficient censorship in itself. — Sub-Inspector McGrath, Christchurch. Cleaning up a Borough. In my opinion one of the most serious functions of a council is to keep the borough in a state of cleanliness, so that they might have healthy people living in the district. In the last twelve months several insanitary houses have been condemned in Parnell as unfit for human habitation, and I believe that before long a similar fate will befall other houses Mr. R. 8. Briggs, Mayor of Parnell. The Same in the End. Whether it is the bookmaker or the totalisator, the end is the same in either case. It makes a man stoney-broke if he follow it Pong enough; the difference is that the bookie keeps the punter alive longer because he does not make his 10 per cent every time.— Mr. T. M. Rose, an Australian bookmaker.

The Curse of the Wards. I am getting tired of the position. There is a tendency to put up one ward against another, and that seems to me to be the difficulty. It is absolutely necessary that we take up seriously the finishing of the work we have iu hand, and I won’t agree to the calling of tenders till we get our roads safe; till we get off the roads those wretched lamps that have been on them for months, and the roads put in a usable condition.— Councillor Hudson, Chairman Mt. Eden Borough Council. Butter for Canada. The trade of Canada with New Zealand had grown from £l(i0,00() in 1910 to over £300,000 in 1911-12, and the trade of New Zealand with Canada had increased from a nominal sum in 1910 to £250,000 in 1911-12. The greatest increase was in butter. In 1910 there were shipped 2958 boxes to Canada, and in 1911-12 26,698 boxes.— Mr. IV. .1. Redder, Canadian Trade Commissioner. * « -x- « Local Government Bill. There should be no representation, without taxation, lie would oppose giving (‘very man a vote. Mr. Middleton, Southland, anent the Local Government Bill. The provision giving every man and woman a vote, and an additional vote to those who paid rates, was to his mind a just and fair provision of the Local Government Bill. Every man and woman ought to have a vote by virtue of their manhoo.l and womanhood. If they did not pay rates, they paid rent in some form or other, and the landlord fixed the rent to cover the tax<’S he paid, so that everybody paid taxes indirectly or directly.— 1/r. IV. B. Hraudrrf I, Mayor of Invercargill. * * * • The Eighty and the Million. His troubles about the SO men in Parliament. What he sought for was the support of the million people outside of Parliament, and ih.it support lie had little doubt of securing.— Hou. G. Laurenson.

The Sheep and the Goats. The future is on the lap of the gods but 1 believe that every move of th» present Ministers bring* me nearer the goal at which 1 have been aiming for years, and that is to get all the sane, sensible, and really progressive men cn one side of the House and to place all the faddists, fanatics, and opportunists on the other.— Mr. IV. /•'. Massey, M.P. • * * » Musical Education. Learning to play the piano in this world would not help one to play the harp in the next. — General Baden-Powell. • * * * A Modern Revolution. We are living in the midst of a revolution as true and deep as the French Revolution of the eighteenth century.—Professor Wilson, Sydney. Outside Help. Efforts to improve the young men who go into camps could be immensely assisted by sympathisers outside of the mili ta ry orga nisa tions. — G en era I ( lodleg. Scouts v. Compulsory Training. He did not think compulsory training would interfere with the Scout movement. On the other hand, the Scouts would immensely improve the cadet system. Scouting imbued the boys with the right spirit, without which good soldiers were impossible.— Lieut.-General Baden-Powell.