RANDOM REMARKS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 644, 18 February 1914, Page 2

RANDOM REMARKS.

By Onlooker

Among the many schemes afloat in the local atmosphere at present, the proposal tu have a high school established at Te Kuiti is entitled to special prominence. Considering the stamp of people who have come into this new district a*d have taken a hand in its development, the next generation should be well worth providing with every possible educational facility. From the local high school of the future we may confidently axpecfc there will issue a cons ant stream of pupilß from the ranks of which will be drawn men and women who will enhance their country's fame, and clothe with a new dignity New Zealand's name throughout the four corners of the earth. Incidentally, I have searched for those four corners on the best maps obtainable, and have been reluctantly compelled to consign their authorship to the forgotten limbo wherein reposes the origin of bowls. It probably rests with some future local high school scholar to locate the aforesaid corners, and justify a hoary tradition. It is to be hoped the curriculum of the school will include among th« arts and sciences such subjects as the driving of motor cars, and perfection in bowls. The former could be included at an adjunct to physiology; the latter, together with golt, should properly be associated with languages.

Referring to motor driving a friend of mine in whom I have the utmost confidence,as a man and a citizen, possesses a car. He is a loving father, a tender and devoted husband, and as an extra recommendation possesses the ordinary, manlike, average vices without which no individual can hope to approach human perfection. But he is in grave danger of sinking, or rising, to the abnormal. The car is his ewe lamb; on that unreliable vehicle rests all his worldly joys; his hopes and aspirations, while even his dreams are broken by references to tubes, tyres, sparks, and gears. One would naturally conclude that a person so obsessed with the car craze would acquire the art of driving to a degree of perfection almost unparallelled. But, alas for enthusiasm, be has failed to reach the dizzy limit, except in the draams alluded to. His latest achievement was the carrying away of the front fence of a city father, and he was so proud of the fact that only half the fence was demolished that the owner of the fence apologised to him for having it so close'to the road. However, it will cause no surprise to hear a heated debate on the car question at a borough council meeting shortly.

The Medical Congress which opened at Auckland last week attracted widespread attention and afforded a theme of interest for both the faculty and laity which no other subject could provide, almost every form of mental and physical suffering was discussed, and the great general question was dealt with by those to whom detail did not appeal. Eugenics was naturilly alluded to and the ingenious suggestion was put forth that tb.6 theory contained within itself the seeds of its own undoing. It was pointed out that the practice of the eugenic idea would result in the production of a specially healthy and strong-minded class of people who would naturally choose mates according to the manner in which their fancy led them. There seems to be something in the contention, avid we may have to await the dawn of a time in which mind will conquer matter before eugenics can be satisfactorily applied. Most other subjects, including babies, were discussed without preudice, but I looked in vain for reference to hippccketitis, the disease which is scourging the King Country. Some people consider bowls should have been discussed, but that is a disease for which no remedy can be discovered.