RANDOM REMARKS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 598, 30 August 1913, Page 3

RANDOM REMARKS.

By Onlooker.

Laws are said to be made .tor the protection of sccie.ty, the inference being thai if iiociity was as decent as it might be Iswa 7,-o"ia bs unnecessary. This statement may not appear to be logical, but it is sufficiently clear to convey r, <acaairig tc those who do not Buffer ii'um pedantry. However, it wus cecided a considerable number cf years Ego fkofc laws were necessary to mankind, and tv-nis have proved (he wisdom or decision. Events have aha proved that no matter how stringent laws r;:sy be a certain class of the community contrive to victimise ihair fellows. Practices of this sort ave rot oniv allowed by law but the perpetrators are generally protected by law from the ccr.seqnencea of their ckech-. Complaints have been received of psonle in Te Kuiti who make 3 practice of trading on the credulity of their fellow men; of laying plots to entrap the unwary and simple-minded. In a humanitarian age it is certainly to be expected that the objectionable element of society will he legislated against. Probably,, the difficulty which confronts the legislators in such a case is to decide which is the objeetionabls element.

Arbor Day at Te Kuiti, which by the way ii a different date from Arbor Day for the remainder of the Dominion, which is as it should be in view of certain other distinctions possessed by the King Country centre. Arbor Day at Te Kuiti dawned rainy and stormy and the hearts of the Ratepayer-*' Association members were saddened at the prospect of a slump in the tree planting business. However, the fickle goddess smiled in the afternoon: the sun shone; the band played and the Esplanade became a Livn of industry. Later when the school children joined the busy throng events moved with startling rapidity and the work was accomplished before the band could complete "God Save the i\ing." K was providential that l'hb headmaster was present to see that the U\*es wc-r: all bedded properly.

The traa golfer is heedless of weather and ;:Ii ordinary happenings which deter people from indulging in othar branches of sport. Fortunately ia T? Kuiti the rain never last .sufficiently lone to interfere with sport of any'description, and only the obsession that bowls is a summer pastime snd to pursue it in winter is doing violence tc an accepted creed of true old English flavour, prevents the more ciarirg spirits of Hhe bowling world indulging ia the game during winter. BuA I began about golf and must apologias to ths followers of a noble game for descending to bowl*. Coif is certainly deserving of a paragraph all to itarlf notwithstanding that it has been the Eucjtci: of remark by Mr Lloyd Georg-2. It appears as though it will ha made a party matter after this and be:ovri<3 so entwined with debatable political questions that respectable people will be forced to play it only en iha" quiit. Politicians and golf 3'e already so eiosoiy associated that the making of the game a party question appears to be inevitable.

Te Kuitians have become so accustomed to seeing improvements carried cut in the local railway station that the matter has ceased to be noted as an indication of the progress of the district. A few years ago the wildest flight of imagination never pictured the present state of efficiency in station accommodation and management. When the old original sentry box that did duty as a station was replaced by a building eracted upside down, so that it could be somersautled across tha line the circumstance was regarded as having a most important bearing on the district. When the actual change was effected it caused little atir,and now when more important and far-reaching additions are being made the general public are blissfully ignorant that anything unusual is transpiring. We are indeed a progressive community, and the necessity for change has become part of our being.

Talking of railway matters leads to speculation on the railway possibilities of the district. When it became known that the Government approved of the construction of light railwava by private enterprise the possibility of a'line from Te Kuiti to Pio Pio began to ba talked of. The project is still in the air and the problem is to anchor it to the earth. There are ilimitable possibilities attached to the subject, snd it is to be hoped the idea wili take material shape at no distant date. The road question will 3ink into comparative insignificance directly the public eye is turned to the railway ard the engineering: activities of the people will find vent in a wider channel than hitherto. The project has already been discussed by the majority of the local amateur engineering talent and pronounced feasible, but this should not deter those who have tho interests of the district at heart. Greater obstacles have been overcome in other districts.