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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5225, 11 January 1928, Page 2

Are the/ Brit’sh bad lasers ? The charge, levelled by Captain Amundsen, has been given the wide publicity of The Times ; but the reply pf the scientist, H. G. Panting (photographic officer with Captain Scott) is overwhelming. As between Scott and Amundsen, the honour of losing gracefully is with the’ Britisher. Amundsen, by a quick change of plans, reached the goal first. No one has denied him the credit, least of all Scott; who met hL depth in the snows without a murmur, leaving a generous tribute to his. luckier rival. Where is the field of adventure, or of sport, or of danger, in which the British race has not pioneered the way ? If Britain has done nothing else than create the public school, with its n-'gation of boastfulness and recognition of the rights of others, the world would still be in her debt.’ Individual. “squealers” will be found everywhere, but the one race that is against them, by all instinct and tradition, is our own. Port'on of. the Torehape tramline road, on the route from Ngatea to Kaihere, is now being reclayed.