WEEK’S SAYINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1932, Page 2

WEEK’S SAYINGS

HEARD THROUGHOUT. DOMINION

“I think the only use for bricks today is to throw at th© Government.’''— Mr S. G. Smith. M P., at Christchurch, referring to the b»lck building industry.

“A team can play on’y as well as the opposition will .allow.”—The manager of the • Auckland Rugby team, interviewed at Auckland on the result of the Ranfurly match against Canterbury.

“Praiseworthy as New Zealand’s loyalty to the Mother Country is, Brit ain has a right . to. expect something more than praise, loyalty and service.” —Mr C. J. B. Norwood, Wellington, addressing the Palmerston Rotary Club.

“The manufacturers are only too glad to see something done to help the primary producers, but it is a terrib’e thing that the manufacturers, and all that they stand for, should be sacrificed to that end.” —Mr F. L. Hutchinson, a prominent Canterbury manufacturer, commenting on the Ottawa agreements,

“If we wbre agreed tlfat the depression ho longer existed we would be a long way on the road to recovery,’.'—The Minister of Lands, the Ron E. A, Ransom, at Wellington,

♦(Don’t let ,us worry about these small points again. Let us hav e a look at the game for a change and see how the players go!”—The president of the Canterbury .Rugby Union, Mr A. E. M’Phail, .speaking of the disagreement over rules.

“My oandid opinion is that, despite the fact that Nej,v Zealand did not f e ®l the -.depression unt’-l long after Australia, the Dominion will b© out of the wood as s-oon as, if not sOoner than, th 6 Commonwealth.”—Mr P. A. de la iPeryePe, M.P., interviewed at Auckland, on his return from Australia.

“Without experience, without full knowledge of, weather and snow conditions, oi what to do in an emergency, mountaineering, ceases to be one of the finest sports in the world, and degenerates into a gamble with the forces of Nature with human life for the stake.” —Mr A. P. Harper, a well-known mountaineer, at Dunedin.