District News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1912, Page 2

District News.

JiVKNTfci JN SIIANNOX. (Chrouielu". by Our Resident Representative,.) I he .Sliiiiiiiiin Liteiary and Debating .Society held it.s usual weekly meeting last night. Mr Jfcnsmau occupied the chair, in tin; unavoidable absence of (In- president. I','ie subject debated was: "That ivlueation iiif reuses Happiness." .Mr T. I-}. .McMillan led oil' for the n'linnative. He deiined ediicali.iii a.< a cultivation of the mind, and lia]i| ,;es.s was the enjoyment of good. From these definitions- Iμ: lollir,,'(l ami traced the enjoyments derived from education, His speech was lull of deep thought, and wat tlie utterance of one who Jiad given thought to his subject. JJis illustration.s and contrasts between ignorance and cultivation wore apt and to tin , point. .Mr Clayton, for the negative, hel;:iii in lnimorons style. Ho criticised his opponent, and lie claimed that, tlie definition of enjoyment wais contentment. Ho could not sen how happiness could he produced by everlastingly wanting more knowledge. Mr Clayton illustrated Hi is by some hiiinoroii.s examples of how the .Maori forsakes a University education and goes back to his natural life. Mr (Gardiner seconded the allirmalive. lie answered .Mr Clayton's assertions and illustrations, and claimed the non-educated were never satisfied until they had improved themselves. He illustrated what was happiness in the individual and vice ver.sa. Mr I'.xall, in .seconding tlte negative, .>aid I hat Ihe more educated, the more sensitive: therefore in

case- of i-orrow it was greater than in the uneducated. Education did not always bring happiness, but it made people think they belonged to a superior cult. TUv possession <,(' knowledge frequently made men vain and supercilious. 'J lie, following ulna spoke in favour of the affirmative: Messrs (Tordon, liov. Myde and (ialland. The latter gave mi interesting description of education and it.s uses. Slc.ssr.s Logan, llensman ajid Selby took part with the negative. The loader* having replied, the question was ])ut {o t]|p the result: For the affirmative P negative. 13. GENERAL NEWS. A violent thunderstorm passed over the town yesterday. Thero "ere vivid flashes of lightning and the rain poured down in torrents. Duck .shooting j s not confined to the male box in this district. Two .Shannon ladies, viz., Mrs Cole and her .sister, .Miss Withers, are experts with the breech loader. Last week while all the male sports were walking round with empty hags, or-per-haps sporting a pair of ducks that had been tihnl some days previous, these ladies popped over seven ducks on the lagoons.