Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1912, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

Prizes and Competitions. THE prize-winners at competitions. should be able afterwards to point with pride to their prizes, with a full knowledge that not one of them had been awarded unless it was fully merited. Thus ami thus only would the honour of winning them be greatly sought after.— Mr ll'. J. Orchard Sunday-school Classes. The Sunday-school of to-morrow was going to consist of a school of little classes, for large classes were dangerous. —Mr Archibald. # # « ♦ Nothing; Like Leather. The Government did not propose to take measures to prevent the public from purchasing composition cardboard boots if they wished, but they certainly intended to stop goods of that description being sold to the public as being leathp" all through.—7/on. M. B. Fisher. Art in New Zealand. Art in New Zealand has not advanced. Men are doing the same sort of thing that they did t wenty years ago, and they do not seem to realise that art is progressive, just as anything else is progressive. there is too much repetition. People are seeing, not through I heir own eyes, but through those of their teachers. If a modern man were to come along, they would not understand him.— Mr Baillie. “God Buries His Workmen, but Carries on Their Work.” The Reformation was past, but it still lived; Wesley was dead, but Methodism was still a living and an ever-growing force; General Booth was dead, but the Salvation Army would nqt come to an end with the passing of its leader.—7’cr 11. Head//. -. Trade with Fiji. We buy a good deal from New Zealand now, especially butter and cheese, but there will be an increase in our purchases. The action of the Australian Government in placing a tariff on our fruit in order to protect l Queensland fruit, has not been favourably* received in Fiji, and I think our people will retaliate by importing more merchandise from New Zealand and less from Australia. At present Fiji buys large quantities of tinned meat, butter, flour, biscuits, and scores of other articles from Australia, and now New Zealand will got a large portion of this Han. 7’. />. Tmncr. Mayor of Suva. * * < * Why Immigrants Prefer Canada. Australia would never, be able to compete with Canada for immigrants. Canada's great advantage was her relative nearness to Britain, and consequent Cheaper jfcassages. There was mush force in the sentimental objection to the ditliculty of returning to the Homeland from Australia owing to the greater distance. Immigrants therefore preferred Canada, as it was easy to reach England for the holidays.— 1/r T. (I. Jenkins. Ex-Agent General for South Australia. The Defence Act. The law with regard to defence service was .in the same position as any other law. If young persons did not go to School, for inst ance, someone had to pa v lhe penalty, and the same principle applied in regard to the Defence Act.— Hon. J. Allen. * * «• « temperament in N.Z. It s<»enis to me that the young New Zealander lacks temperament. It will probably come later, but al present this want is very noticeable in the art of the Dominion. I feel very strongly that jtnul people become more sympathetic and become really interested in lhe work of those who are definitely trying to jbvolve something - Io put themselves on canvas there,, will be no national school of painting in New Zealand— Mr Baillie,

Naval Policy. New Zealand's naval policy was a policy of opportunism, while Australia's was the best for the Empire and for the preservation of the autonomy of its parts.—.4 dtniral Henderson Isolated Waipu. Waipu has been neglected ami forgotten by the Governments of New Zealand for almost fifty years. We are practi • ally cut off from the world, and so heavy are the charges on our produce that many of our best families have left to succeed in other parts, while others may be seriously thinking of doing the same. For example, 54 years ago freight to Waipu from Auckland was 20/- per ton. To-day the Waipu Dairy Company is charged 30/- a ton, while the people of Whang-i--re i get their goods placed on the Whangarei wharf for 8/- per ton.— Mr (I. M achat/ Waipu. A Word ©f Caution. New Zealand is one of the happiest, most prosperous countries in the world, and people can do better here than elsewhere; but there arc many signs from foreign politics and local labour disorders and general extravagance that unless we be very careful we may deeply regret that we turned a deaf ear to repeated warnings.— Mr /•’. (/. Euin</ton.

Women in tlie Backblocks. Fhe task of breaking in new country did not fall solely upon young men who presently sold their holdings at a profit, but it was shared by women and.children who during the years of arduous industry which lay before every selector in new' country gave their assistance in a work that was of direct benefit to the whole nation.— Mr J. .1. Yount/. I/./*. War and Military Training. Even if war were abolished it would still pay to give military training, iiiculeating discipline, co-operation, and selfcontrol. — Colonel N'. Hu</hes Canadian Minister for Defence. Germany's Steel Spurs. The game-birds are in the cockpit, ami Germany has her steel spurs on watching for an opening-— Mr Ail, ins. at the Hague Conference. * * « * V An Imperial Council. I will add that side by side with this growing participation in the active burdens of Empire on the* part of our Do millions there rests with us. undoubtedly, the duty of making such response as we can to their obviously reasonable appeal that they should be entitled to be heard in the determination of the polity and the directum of Imperial affairs. - Mr Asipiilh.

The Supply of Oysters. While many people* in Auckland are inclined to complain of the scarcity of fish, they fail to remember that the supply of oysters during the past few months has been greater than during any other season.— 1/r .1. /•’. At/son, Inspector of Fisheries. The Cause of Unrest. I do not think there is general discontent among the farm labourers of New Zealand. 'l’he unrest amongst the labouring classes was due to a few agitators who were fomenting trouble among the workers.— Mr John Beans, of the Canterbury Sheepowners’ UnionThe Changing Situation. of the Empire. Canada is realising to the full, as Now Zealand and other Dominions have realised, the changing situation of the Empire and the responsibilities which that changing situation inevitably throws ii|H>n every component element of the Empire. We feel that the resources of the Empire are more and more becoming available for the needs of the Empire and that we, who, I believe, liavo ever stood for the world’s peace, shall not stand alone in these two islands, but shall have behind us the whole strength of the Empire of which we are a part.— J*l. Hon. /i. J. Balfour.

Electrical Service. A W iSX HOUSE. In the days of the Arabian Nights, the possessor of the ring or tamp had only to rub to evoke the appearance of the Genie, who would get whatever ■was required in the twinkling of an eye. Something not unlike this magic will take place at the new hotel. •’Elec-ira-Fcrin,” which is to be built in Faris, by ,\l. George Knap, a well known electrician whose whole house, appropriate l.v called “I.a \ ilia Feria Elect rique,'* »is a laboratory of elect rival service ap iparatus (according to (he London sketch) In thi> hotel servants will be conspicuous b x their al»seiice and the gue.-d will be served with* immeasurably greater rapidity than by human hands. On awakening he will press a button near the bed, when from that part of the hotel devoted to the service he will hear a voice asking lor <nders, for part, of the ceiling acts as a telephone, speaking iii that direction, without in ing a telephone, the visitor will say, “I want my cup of coffee or tea,’’ etc. In a few seconds, by means of apparatus wanked electri.ally. the window-. are opened or dosed, and proof that the order for petit d’jeillier has been executed i- forlhcomiiig by the automat •• appearance of these ariich*> on a table which stands conveniently near th.* In-1

'l’he rest.imant of the hotel is served in the same way. - At a corner of each table is a bronze arm, about three feel, high, rarrying a lamp. 'This **tand con tains a specially designed telephone, with a microphone for intesifving sound. When the guests take thei’r seats, the host rings the bell at his side. Im mediately the waiter in the restaurant below ans-wers and asks for the order. This is given without having to use the telephone in the usual way, but merely by speaking in the ordinary tone of voice near the lampstand. \\ hen lhe dish is ready, it makes its appearance in the centre of the table on a silver tray, which has descended <»n an electrically worked lift into the kit’chen. As soon a* this dish is remov ed, the tray descends again and returns in less 'than twenty seconds bearing whatever has been ordered for the orciipier of the other seat. The course linisltfed, the plates are once more placed on the tray, the bell is touched, ami the soiled things descend into the lower regions that the next course, may be served. While most of the tables are arranged for two or four guests, much larger parties can he equally well ae •commodated. As there are no waiters, there will presumably he no tips!