Thoughts For The Times.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1920, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times.

Rkckless Disregard. Ma ny we) I meaning Men think they know all about industrial questions. And! they preach Sermons or mulct! Speeches with a reckless disregard of real Experience. Others, who ought to have Experience, are so blinded by their prejudices and passions that they learn nothing from it. These are all Blind leaders of the Blind!. Can wo not, like Scientists, ;tndy facts, and think for ourselves.

Messrs M, Houston and Co. will sell by auction on Saturday on the premises of Mr A. C. Reynolds, upper Weld Street, furniture, effects, etc.

A Eotorua telegram states that a new geyser has appeared at Whararewa-rewa near Pohutu geyser. It played to a height of fifteen to twenty feet oil Friday night, and again on Saturday morning and afternoon.

A correspondent of the “Napier Telegraph” calls attention to a booklet entitled “British Trades Alphabet,” a copy of which his little girl recently jqecieived at a local school. On rile opening page is an address by tile Minister of Industries to young New Zealanders. The gist of the address is Contained in onto of the sentences, which reads: “It is easy to see that if we purchase goods made in Nuv Zealand, we help New Zealand; :f we bu\ those made in other parts of 1 1'- ltmpire we help the Empire; and if we go in for those made in foreign countries wc help those countries instea 1 of our own.” Yet the girl brv'.ght home as a prize from this school, an exi ei.-ivo looking book marked “Male in U c A. On the previous day (lie Port '’re-by-te rian Sunday School went one bettci or worse (as one may look at it) and sent her home with a book printed fore and aft “Made in Germany.”