Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, 22 January 1913, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand's Invitation to Immigrants. THE conditions at the present time to intending emigrants were never more assured; wages were good, employment for suitable people plentiful, and the prospects of permanently doing well remarkably good. —The High Commissioner.

The Cable and the Dominions. The Pacific cable had played a very important part in bringing the Canadian market within reach of New Zealand produce. The distance was too great- to enable business in perishable products to be arranged bv mail, and without the cable the trade could never have developed to its present magnitude between the two countries.— Mr W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner. The Mayor and the Cable. The Pacific Cable Board was a British Institution, and it was really engaged on an Empire work. Warships and guns might be necessary to preserve the nation’h safety, but nothing would do more for commerce and mutual goodwill between . the Empire's component parts than easy and rapid communication. The cable achieved this, and was consequently a great instrument for stability in the Empire to-day.— Mr J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland. The Object of the Australasian Club. The original object was to start a place where they could depend upon having a good New Zealand chop;— Hon. T. Mackenzie. Wellington’s Unmetered Water. There must be an effective check on the man who allows tin? hose to play on his lawn throughout the night without having the water metered, as by so doino he is using a service towards the cost of which lie is not contributing his fair share. Mr II .H. Morton . City Engineer Wellington. Profitable Carnivals. Carnivals were conducted both in Auckland and Christchurch annually, and they .were instrumental in bryiging an immense amount of money into these cities. He considered that’ Wellington should launch out with a big carnival, and Hold it annually.— 1/r 7'. C. 1. Hislon (Wellington). * * * * Good Advice to Mothers. He exhorted mothers anxious to see their daughters marry money or position not to attempt the business of choosing husbands for them. It had not been done for themselves. Their daughters did not want it, either. He dal not blame the daughter, for it was she who had to live with the man.— Her. It. J. Hoban (Bal larat, N.S.W.). The Dominion's Appreciation of the Cable. The Pacific cable owes much to New Zealand, whose Government and people have ever accorded to it uniform and liberal assistance and patronage. The extension now completed, while largely, we trust, enhancing the efficiency of the system as a whole, will, we believe, contribute somewhat specially to the convenience of the Dominion public, and remembering bur obligations to them, that is a result at which we should specially rejoice.— Mr H. IV. Primrose, Chairman Pacific Cable Board. Sir Harry Atkinson—A Welldeserved Tribute. He considered that much of the pr<Wperity of the Dominion was due to tlio work of the man whom he described as one of the greatest patriots New Zealand had known.— The Premier. * * » » “A Young Country." In a young country such as this, where the sine of the public purse is not always in proportion to our ambitions, we are often hindered from embarking <m undertakings that in larger and richer countries might Im* considered necessary, if not indispensable.— Hon.' It. 11. Heaton Rhodes —

He Did His Duty. He had only done his duty, and that he considered was his very best in the interests of the district he* had the hon our to represent in Parliament.— Wr 1. Harris. M.P.

Maori and Pakeha. An effort should be made to do avvuv with all restrictions and distinctions between the two races, and to place the Maori on entirely even terms with the pakeha.— Hon. Dr. Pomarc. * * * * Auckland's Roses. He had seen the rose Frau Karl Dru.-chkt growing in the open in Auckland quite unsheltered. We could not produce similar blooms under like conditions in We’lington, if we tried for 50 years.— 1/r Fo.r (Wellington). The New Zealander’s Splendid Physique. His experience here was that patients underwent operations with a far greater

chance of recovery than they did at Home, a fact to be ascribed to the superior physique and stamina of the average New Zealander.— Dr. Hardtrirk Smith, ’Medical Supt., Wellington Hospital. Narrow Tyres and Local Roads. I am of opinion that no matter how we make our roads, whether the paving is lithofait flocks, tarred macadam, or other material,* they will not stand the heavy traffic of vehicles with narrow tyred wheels. — Mr L). Teed. Mayor of Newmarket. Fine Apple Crop. The supply was in excess of that of last year, and would continue for a longer period. Last year local apples were so plentiful that Tasihqnian growers could not find a profitable market in New Zealand. plenty of apples were available f«»r export. Space had been arranged for the shipment of 1,500 eases uf New Zealand apples to South America during the sensori, and if more space could have l>eep procured, further could have been exported wiUiout in a/iy way shortening the supplies-on the New »••• laud markets. — Mr. A. Tooman. I .».{

The Fish Market Scheme. Should the scheme be carried into ef feet, and there i.s every indication that it will lie. the public should benefit materially, aml the Imarder and private householder mav lie able t > have his fish daily with the assurance that his landl.ulv’s or iis private coffers are undergoing no undue strain.— M . ('. <l. Parr. The Boulder Metalled Road of the North. VVe had a great deal of tyre trouble, ow ing to the terrible state of some of the so-called roads, but we never had a span rer out on the car. This was attributed

to the fact that the American ear we were using is of a light and flexible make, lieing more suitable than a heavy type of cat fur roads which, when metalled at all. are metalled for the most part with big boulders. — Mr. /*. H. Spinks.

The Distressful Mapoirika. We have made no arrangements for replacing her in the run. No doubt the union would like vet v mi ch to ?,ee us put another boat on. for they ♦•nt to get rid of the Mapou’.ika, but wo do not look upon it in that light.— Mr Kennedy (Wellington manager U.S.S. Co.).

The Progressive North. 1 venture to predict, after wh;t I liave seen to-day of your settlers and your soil, that ten years hence the country will have progressed to an unrecognisable extent. — Hon. II . /’. Massey, M.P. (Premier of New Zealand). * * * * Pricey and Wages in San Francisco Business is g<>od. and the wages of tradesmen high. Plumbers receive seven dollars (29/), and caiqienters six dollar* (25/ per day. The prices for groceries are about 10 per cent higher than in New Zealand, a state of things forced by the high wages existing, but fruit and vegetables are cheap—naturally, as they can lie produced all the year round. Two crops of potatoes are easily raised, and in some cases three crops in the year.— Captain Harry Andren# (laic of Wellington. • • • • The Monnt Lyell Victimw. A large number of the rietims !<>y peacefully with their h**-ds pillowed oh their arms, the todies composed im for sleep. Others wen* standing nt Hie-air-Isixes. The air was placing on the dead faces. The pye>» were bright, the cheek* rosy, and the lips cherry red as in healthy infants.— Dr. Lote.

A Careless Public Make an Un deal City.

The public arc too careless in the way in which they get rid of rubbish, such as cigarette packets, disused tram tickets and match boxes. All this garbage they drop on the footpaths, and in the water channels, and thereby create a great nuisance.— Mayor of Auckland,

Bristol as a Port. It seems to me there is only one course, and that is to leave London and go to the West of England ports, where there are excellent facilities for handling our produce. Take A von mouth (Bristol). 'Hie official figures show that we can deliver produce at the Smithfield markets cheaper than at the Port of London.— Mr. H’. />. l.ysna r.

Boys, Beaches, and Boats. Boys are allowed unlimited liberty about these places and then they Iwgin to steal.— Sub-1 u spec tor Hco dry. Queen Street Shall be Clean Street. 1 trust that the general public will exercise a little more care in the future; for otherwise the authorities will be under the painful necessity of baling a few offenders before the Police Court. 1 may add that instructions to see that the city by-laws are more rigidly observed have lieen issued to the traffic and sanitary inspectors. There is no excuse for the existence of dirt in our main street, and it must disappear. — The Mayor of 4 uckland.