NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 5

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

OUR SUPREMACY IN THE AIR, To-day, thanks to the work of a handful of men still with us, and the host of others who were led by their enthusiasm to join them, a new instrument of communication lias come to the British Empire, just when politically and Imperially it was most needed. Greater speed in communication between the widely-scattered components of the Empire is essential if tbo homogeneity of the Britishspeaking peoples is to be assured, and to-dav, both from the civil and defence standpoints, the necessarj means exist to supplement the sea communications upon which the Empire has been based so long.—The aeronautical correspondent of the “Times Trade and Engineering Supplement.’’

PARLIAMENT VERSUS CHURCH. ‘‘Jt remains to be seen whether theie is a real conflict between the House of Commons and the C’lnirch. Il theie I'C, it may pertinently be asked, ‘Mho threw down the gage of battle? Mas it not those who refused to recognise that they were dealing with a Church that had a mind and a soul of its own to which it could not he untiue without being unfaithful to the highest loyalty of all? It is almost incredible that any man of eminence and experience could ever have supposed that any religious body would even consent to 'allow*"its doctrine and discipline to l>e determined by the House of Commons The Church of England has, in the whole course of its long history, never done so. Rather than do so. it once went into the wildnerness. It is now plain to every eye that it never will do so. The composition of a modern Parliament makes such a surrender even more impossible than it was in the past.”—'Manchester “Guardian.”