THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1922, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Tub Dignity or Labor. j j Mr J, A. Frostick, speaking in ICaia-I I poi at a gathering in honour of the industrial secretary for the Australasian J Y.W.C.A., referred to the great need j for raising the conception ol the value of all useful work. He said that ft was a matter of importance for every individual in a community to respect j his own and other people’s work as ! essential to the welfare of the commun. j ity. i

Mrs Vere Plantagcnct cured her cough so easily with “Kofgo” that- she recommends all her friends to secure it.

The Westland Racing Club’s autumn meeting is taking place this afternoon in showery weather. There are large fields, hut the course is heavy following the heavy downpour last night and showers to-dav.

Train arrangements on connection with the Greymouth Races at Oinoto on Saturday 22nd. April are advertised in this issue. Special train for Greymouth will leave Ross 8.50 a.m. Hokitika 10.0 a.m. Excursion tickets will lie issued to Greymouth.

'-Exeuptional value in corsets and winter vests is now being offered at Lloyd’s See window display and don’t forget that you will get back Is fid out of every £ you spend with us.

A dance will he held in the SupremeHall to-morrow (Tsfii'sday) evening in aid of the Exeej|ior Football Club. First-class musigf good floor and efficient M.C. Dicing commences at 8.30 o’clock. Admission Is plus tax.— Advt.

ii is notified that in connection with the athletic sports at Hokitika tomorrow (Thursday), the afternoon train to,.Greymouth from Hokitika will leave at 5.15 p.m., and a train will leave Ross at 11.1-5 a.m. and Hokitika for Ross at 5.30 p.m.

A strange phenomenon was seen not far I rom the sloping lands adjacent to Shoal Ray, Devonport, Auckland, on Wednesday (says the “Star”). The tide was an unusually high one, and for some reason hundreds of young eels swam near the edge of the water, swimming above land that as a rule is not covered by the tide. After high water, v on the litle commenced to recede,

they did not want to go out with it, and scores of them commenced to wriggle about in the coarse sea grass, and make their way inland for fully six i.r even yards, whether they wore after food or whether they had completely lost their bearings it would he hard to tell. Stories have been fold how eels a ill travel overland for over a mile to get from one stretch of water to another, and the young eels on Wednesday proved that they were good land travellers. Had they not been discovered and killed by a large number if seagulls it would have been interesting to find out how far they would have -callv travelled and what their object was. The seagulls attacked them at the head, and it was only after they had dispatched them in this way that they commenced in a leisurely way to 'evour them. The eels were about Tree or four inchc* in length.

The “futility” of the city man as compared with ihe country-bred girl vns demonstrated by-an incident in -Suckland on Wednesday. A horse hariie ->ed to a f rad . small’s cart stumbled ami fell, pitching the driver over its ' em! on to the hard roadway. The man was a little stunned, and before e could recover himself the horse had in general way commenced to smash things up as it lay on the ground struggling to free itself. With' commendable pluck a smartly dressed vuung woman grasped the situation, and. getting hold of the horse’s head sitting on it, gave instructions to a few nervous men who had gathered how to free the horse from its predicament. Sometimes (states the “Auckland Star”) a movement from the prone horse scattered them quickly, much to her disgust. She asked one young fel--1 :w to sit on the horse’s head and she would soon tree the harness. 1 wouldn’s sit on its head for a fiver.” said the young fellow. Ry this time 'lie driver had come to himself, and tile horse was soon got free. “Thank von, Miss,” he said, “you are worth of those city chaps.” “Oh, 1 learnt to do that on my father’s farm,” ho said, as she passed on, telling the voting driver to bathe the horse’s injuries with plenty of hot water, and to put embrocation on the injured knee.