SCRIBBIING PAD NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1919, Page 4

SCRIBBIING PAD NOTES.

(By “X.”) The President of the Auckland Industrial Association says : “ J£ we can get requisite financial lielp from our banking instilntiops, supported by a sympathetic government we need have little fear as to the future prosperity of the Dominion, and the difficulty of repatriating our soldiers will vanish.” The trouble is the soldiers are here and tho financial assistance not in sight yet. The world is being re-made ; old systems lidary with age are being destroyed. The birth of r.ew movements is on foot; new thoughts are in the air; new dreams are being dreamed, and the new age is surely coining. But sometimes it seems as though we have ears and hear not; eyes and see not. —Joseph Hocjcing.

Mr Maxwell, the Auckland city building inspector, says that unfortunately up to the beginning of the war the best of our timber was exported, and it was not an easy matter now to get good sound build|ng timber. How about the West Coast ? Sir Douglas Haig says the passions from which war arises still exist in every quarter of the globe, and only await the appropriate moral, political, and economic conditions to burst forth.

General Russell says : “ One common aim nnited for one object, and there is nowhere we cannot go.” It is not easy to trace any common aim or object the people have iu view Just now, or to make out where they want to go. It is quite easy to see however, where' they are drifting, and where they will arrive if the forces now tending to d|suDite them on every possible subject are not counteracted. Probably the Germans realise this pretty clearly, and are waiting their fitne.

George Roberts and his associates of the Omaha Grain Exchange, broke the pool of the Chicago corn manipulators and made £400,000 in five days—-so says a New York cable of April 2G.

The Gold Producers Association, Ltd, lias been formed in Australia to finable Australian gold producers to realise the best price obtainable for their gold. Admiral Beatty says: "England still remains to be taken out of the stupor of self-satisfaction and complacency into which her great and flourishing condition has steeped her, and until she can be stirred out of this condition, and until a religious revival takes place at Home, just as long will war continue,” “The Church is in process of inocif lation with a powerful virus of manliness,” stated a high dignitary of the Church of England to a London press representative. “It is intended to develop the scheme of training the clergy more on lines of social and psychological study than heretofore, for it is realised that the ex-service man is capable of an intimate grasp of modern social problems.” Asked as a sportsman what were the odds against Jutland being the last sea battle, Admiral Beatty replied they were a thousand to one.