Notes anil Comments.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 June 1913, Page 2

Notes anil Comments.

SOME few weeks ago a nation Disillusioned. kMonging t< this distric visited Kaipara and took up hi: abode in a Kainga noted for th beauty of its females. Hi straightway fell in love with onof tire belles who on beinjt assured that her suitor possessor a huge run injtho Lower Waikat several thousand sheep, and at up-to-date flax mill, promisee him h r heart and han I. and, it: the course of time, arrived with iier father in the neighbourhooc of tli - supposed farm mid flu mill. Anxious enquiries?* w.-r. instituted f ir the squat 1 ler but u.) oil' appeared t> ki rw or to have heard of the possession: of Hone l ara who, it is.shrewdlj supp >sed, was no other than an c nploye ■in tin 100 it mill Neither Maori n irpakeh i ;ar -d t expose tlu- deception, and thm the father and daughter prosecute! their enquiries in vaii until an ~hi chief took the n t tii - top of a hill overlooking lake Whanvapo and explain .1 th it the lake was the farm of her 1 iver and the white wavelets were tile sheep that disappeared with th fall of the wind to the bottom from which they never arose The parabolic is language, kindly but effective, lra l the desired result, the parent and daughtei returning to the ICuipara as they came, and more inclined than ever t) believe the put who announced that “in -a were deceivers ever.”. THE average man and woman is DECADENCE. abo | l . t tir . ed , ol rea ling and hearof the decadence of Britain an j the Britons, and it is refreshing t> learn that if retrogression dogs the heels of humans, British bred farm animals are still regarded as the best procurable. In order to improve foreign stock Britain exports annually thousands of horses. In 1911. nearly 2000 were exp >rted, among them 260, chiefly hacks and hunters, to the Argentine at an average price of £l7B each, while for another consignment Sweden paid at the rata of £259 ich. Lh-iz? cattlo aad sheep are exported annually in large numbers, the United States bain? Brit bin's best customer. For 772 bought in 1911. til - sum of £25,000 was paid, while the 243 head imported by

the Arg ml ine c no les - than £29,910. British pigs are always on demand in foreign countries ir. which, from furthest east to farthest west, breeders have always given the palm to stock imported from (It. Britain. Newspaper and magazine editors T , IE as well as statesWASTEOF ™ e “ „ ar , e a Kreed WEALTH. , taat at tbe EJ-esent tune there is going on throughout tho world a grievous waste of wealth, and Mr D. J. Gordon M.P. in an address to the South Australian Chamber of Commerce painted out various channels through which this waste flows. Summarised, Mr Gordon’s views may bo thus tabulated : —(1) Avoidable loss of life, both infantile and adult; (2) Inefficiency of man and machinery; (3) Reduction of output owing to tiie “ slowing down” system following industrial disputes ;(4) The employment of out-of-date plants that ought to be scrapped; (5) Losses through the bad methods employed in the field and tho factory; (6) Failure to utilise by-products; (7) Waste of raw materials and poor supplies ; (8) Wasteful methods of distribution, leading to unnecessary duplication, and thus adding to the cost of living; (9) Neglect of geographical outlets and cheap water carriage; (10) Bad roads and a general absence of modern means of rapid communication. Though not exhaustive, the summary appears to be on tho right lines, and the truths enunciated will be read ly an 1 eas ly recognised.