NOTES OF THE DAY
TifE unprecedented crowds of holi-day-makers now seeking fresh air and f.mshine afield lends point to thi) appeal for the more adequate opening up of the Tongariro National Park. We are pleased to support the contention of the New 'AmInnd llevnhl that the building of an accommodation house in this magnificent playground should be pushed forward without delay. A modern hostelry on the forest-clad slopes of the mountain would attract not only those who seek alpine climbing, fishing, and forest excursions, but would also appeal strongly to elderly and less active city folk seeking in the mountain air and magnificent scenery a tonic for body and mind. It is to be hoped that when next Christinas comes the Tourist Department will have- this new and longdesired attraction to add to its list of holiday resorts.
Liberal and Labour circles may well bo left to extract what consolation they can from their ingenious calculations with the late polling figures. They declare that tho first-past-the-post principle—not having put them in office—has resulted in a horrible, travesty of the desires of the people. But we doubt if that travesty 5s half so horrible as the one that emerges from their sums in addition and subtraction. You take all the votes for Labour candidates, all the votes for Reform candidates, and all the votes for Wardist candidates, add each lot together, and the result is the true political rolour of the country. It, would be so charmingly simple if it wasn't such balderdash. According to these mathematicians, there is not cno Reform supporter to be found in all Wellington Central, not a solitary Liberal in Ka.-irj.ira.. not one Labour, sympathiser in Wnipawa, When an election takes place in which every party is represented in.every electorate, and every elector votes purely on party, grounds—when this time arrives wc shall begin to know something about tho political colour of the country. In tho meantime, the Ivst course seems to be to take, a licking with a little less squealing. v • » * »
When will Wellington begin the erection of modern flat buildings 1 The pursuit of the fugitive flat'continues so briskly in' Christchuvch i.hfit a Canterbury citizen has undertaken the erection of a block of up-to-date self-contained flats of four and five rooms, each with a motpt f'rauc. No sooner has be announced bis intentions than he is overwhelmed with applications from projective tenants, and his original undertaking is developing into mernlv the first of a series of blocks. So far the project- exists nnnnvenHy onlv on pnner, but modern flat buildings have raid handsomely almo<:i, all over the world; they would be welcomed by hundreds of wcevy house-hnnte.rs in Wellington, a."d if Christchnreh can have them wbv cannot the Rmnire City? Tl is to be honrr] [hat someone will arise with sufficient enterprise and enthusiasm to overcome the obstacles now existing to their erection in this city.
One unexpected result of the war is the presentment in Britain of nearly three thousand ex-onicers and men as candidates for Holy Orders. The Church of England is stated to have 2500 vacancies in her ministry, and it is obvious that these could not be supplied by better men than those who in the sternness of activo service have seen what lifu and death really mean. The Church as a rule offers no more than the barest living, and these men can only be taking Orders because they believe they have the vocation for it. Field-Marshal Earl Haig, with his keen interest in the welfare of exservice men, is appealing in England for tho money necessary to complete the education of the candidates, and it will be tho earnest hope of all well-wishers of the Church that their on try will bring with it a reinforcement of new and vigorous lije.
The woolly-headed little section of the public which is already longing for an opportunity of falling on the neck of Brother Bocho to weep tears of brotherly love and affection would do well to read the news from Berlin. Tho arrival there of Marshal von Hindenburg the other day appears from the English Press to have been made an occasion of the most joyful onthusiasm, accompanied by the singing of "Deutschland K ubcr Alles." A feeble effort was made to raise a cry of "Dowri with tho wholesale butchers, long live the Internationale !" These demonstrators, however, only got home after the police had hauled the crowd off them, The transactions of tlic Germans in meeting tho Allies' shipping demands, as cabled this morning, arc not of a nature to inspire confidence. With an unrepentant Germany, chaos and anarchy in Russia, and Austria''and the Balkans in a ferment, the time seems scarcely opportune to advocate that the progressive peoples of the world should throw their armour on the scrapheap.
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