VIRTUES OF RIGHT DISCIPLINE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 19, 24 October 1944, Page 4

VIRTUES OF RIGHT DISCIPLINE

"GERMANY has got to go into a reformatory. The dis-,-cipline will be severe and salutary, but there are compensations and encouragements. . On the late Lord Balfour's 74th birthday, I took him to play lawn tennis against the markers at Queen's Club, and, on the way home, I said to him: 'You ought to be pleased to think that you are playing better at 74 than at 64.' He replied: 'I know; but to play even as modestly as I do, I've had to give up golf, and golf is a game, that one can play when one is old.' Life still seemed to him an unbroken white road stretching ahead indefinitely. I recommend that spirit to Germany, when in time she emerges older and wiser. She can be active and useful and she can enjoy herself in moderation. She can acquire temperance, age gracefully and make friends of the young without lusting to turn them into slaves. There must be no more frowns or forbidding yellow smiles, no more indecent bally-hoo of false youth and 'becoming.' She; has been hideously expensive, and we must make sure that those cravings have been killed, that there is no more sneaking recourse to quacks and dope. She can be cured, if you don't let her out too soon."—Lord Vansittarfc in his book "Lessons of My Life."

Cherries in October A heavy crop of delicious cherries now graces one of Mr A. G. Allan's trees in Domain Road. The fruity though abnormally early are plump and gwect and are in abundant supply. From samples submitted to this office we feel that the cherries are but. another striking advertisement for the mildness of the climate in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Art Union Profits The view that the profit on raffles and art unions was not high, enough, was expressed in the House of Representatives by Mr A. S. Sutherland (National, Hauraki). The gross sales were £2*51,000, he said, but the net j>rofit was only £97,000, and he hoped the Minister would look into the expenses. The lottery duty of £25 000, for instance, could go. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, said that the profits were conserved and watched carefully and were devoted to helping organisations that were unable to assist themselves.

What a Man ! A Maori at the Post Office, counter at Te. Awamutu was overheard to remark the other clay that, he was the father of 28 children. He was making application for sugar rationing allowance, and when the obliging attendant looked at him incredulously he repeated his statement. adding with equal confidence that "Py corry—l do better'n that for Social Security." Property Dealing The present indications are that Otago deals in property have dropped by 25 per cent, as the; result of the operations of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, states a Press* Association message from Dunexlin. For several years before the Act applied some 4000 property transfers were handled annually. The total number during the first year of the new Act. is likely to be less than 3000. The total reductions in the selling price or properties since the Otago committee first sat last November is S27 j 272.