BOOKS RECEIVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Ten Real Murder Mysteries—Never Solved, by Sidney Sutherland (Putnam). famous South Coast Resorts, by Harold Ciunn (Whittlng-nanr ana Co., London), Windfall , * Eve, by E. V. Lucas (Metliuen). Keep Climbing: Twenty-six Stories of j Ltd., London).

Will the "unemployable," when admitted to a State rest home, employ themselves in resting? The long-expected Transport Bill has been introduced. People Who like to walk occasionally may still do so without, a license. A function many of us would like to see: The Hon. T. M. Wilford taking the salute at the first parade of New Zealand policewomen. When a motorist has got "on side" with the "offside rule," he should be entitled to claim the remission of half his license fees. . Perhaps the best method of helping New Zealand boy* to "go on the land" would be to pay their fares to England. They could then emigrate to their home country under one of the migration schemes. The phenomenon of the Avondale spring race meeting being conducted in fine weather must have impressed many peoplo thie week. This occurrence, I have it on excellent authority, may be taken to indicate either a dry suuimei or a wet one. Mr, E. E. Vaile has denied strenuously the charge that he wants a railway built through the Taupo' country because he owns a considerable area of it. It's a hard world for the enthueiast. If he owns property he is accused of selfinterest, and if he owns none, nobody takes any notice of him.

Mr. Justice MacGregor deplores the low , standard of public epeakiiig in New Zeaknd, and in an address he gave his ideas of what a public speech should be like. It appears that the would-be speaker should have something to say. If this rule were enforced what a deathlike eilence would fall upon the land. A Wellingtonian is making a claim to an English fortune of £20,000,000. If ho succeeds, I hope he won't forgot to return to the Dominion. His grateful country no doubt would deviwe an ultrasupertax for him alone, and the taxation, burden on the rest of us might be removed. "If your wife and daughters come home with silk etockings, throw them in the fire," said a Wangantii farmer, in discussing the most effective means of encouraging the use of wool. An interesting suggestion, but not eo interesting as the consequences for the- farmer who adopted it. "Correct pronunciation of Maori named in the schools is regarded as desirable by the Education Department." N.-> doubt it is, but won't it lead to a few misunderstandings? For instance, when the child goes home and pronounces Otah'uliu as it should' be pronounced, will his parents realise that he is talkIng about Ohtahoo? The "Daily Expfcjße" gives prominence to the announcement of a financial

expert that "the Hatry crash will prove smaller than expected. The deficit will be approximately £0,000,000." Little enough, if one "thinks of it quickly. And I suppose that if Mr'- Hatry is found guilty of fraud his prison-sen-tence will not be much longer than if the amount concerned had been £GOO. The deputy-Leader of the Federal Labour party said that "Labour, if returned, would not hesitate to establish a Commonwealth-owned shipping line to resist overseas monopolies." And a very favourable time to do it. The Briice Government only recently finished clearing up the wreckage of the last shipping enterprise, and all the millions it lost .have been duly "written off." If Labour gains power it should have time to lose many more millions before the next clean-up.

The firat picturegi'ams to be transmitted in Australia were exchanged between Sydney and Melbourne recently. A Melbourne newspaper's editorial was reproduced in a Sydney paper, and picturegrams of Sydney people going to work were sent to Melbourne. I wonder which dty Was the moet interested by this evidence of the progress of mechanical invention. At least we may say that the choice Of subjects for the picturegrams was better than that made on a similar occasion in the United States. After much preliminary "boosting" a San Francisco paper produced the first picture ever telegraphed from New York to San Francisco. The picture, transmitted at much expense and enormous pains across a great and busy continent, was the kindly countenance of New York's latest murderer.!