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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5077, 19 January 1927, Page 3

“Electricity is cheaper in Melbourne than in any other place in the Southern Hemisphere,” said Mr J. B. Murdoch, of Hawera, to a “News” representative recently. Mr Murdoch, who has just returned from a trip to Australia, explained that the electricity is generated by steam power, coal fuel being used. The plant is built on the coalfields, so that coal is transferred direct from ,the mines into the furnaces. In this case poor quality coal which is of no use for household purposes is used. Mr Murdoch pointed out the possibilities of the Ohura coalfields. ¥or supplying fuel to generate electricity to serve the whole Taranaki province and King Country, and referred to the comparatively cheap cost of building such a plant as compared with the cost of hydro-electric works.

“I am to deal with the general subject ot death and the life beyond. In undertaking this task I lay myself open to a double charge : that of audacity in daring to discuss a subject concerning which it is, declared by many that nothing can possibly be known ; and that irreverence, in reopening a Question which orthodoxy has settled once and for all. In answer to that possible double charge I declare, in advance, that I am neither audacious nor irreverent. On the contrary, they are audacious who make their agnocticism the measure Of all possible knowledge; and they are irreverent who close their minds against restatements of old truths, supposing that, because the fathers, have spoken, there is nothing'fui ther to be said. Truth can never change. It is eternal. But our conceptions of the truth are bound to change. As the mind enlarges and wider horizons disclose themselves we things in different and in different perspective.”—Rev. F. C. Spurt, in "Death and the Life Beyond.”