NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It had ever seemed to him, Bishop Julius tjaid in the course of a sermon at Chi'istelmfeli on Sunday, that the training and discipline'of the British Navy was the very finest thing on earth of its kind. It came nearer to an ideal state than anything else h.e knew. It had produced a type which was loved from cue end of the world to the other. He-could almost wish that no man might enter Parliament until he had qualified as an able seaman. They would then have a better Parliament.

The citizens of the United States a re'beginning to speak as directly as the extremists preach, and according to a .contemporary the buildings in some Amoykam cities ere adorned with a poster bearing the following- advice, so direct that any running bomb-thrower can read:—“THIS IB AN AMERICAN HOUSE. You earn a better living here and live better than you over did before. Do not criticise our President, our Government, and our Allies. If you do not like the way we-fun our Government, go buck to your own country. If you are just a natural rebel, or if you have no country, then go to bell!”

“Bunny,” a proscribed post in New Zealand, is, nevertheless, turned (o good ae'count. Exports of rabbits and hares from this country for the seven months, of this year approximate in value £41,000 as to the meat, and £155,400 as to the shins, it is no wonder, then, that a resident of Decatur, 111., I .S.A., should feel interested in the matter, ami write as under to a local pubdishing firm: —“As I am interested in the rabbit business, 1 would like the names' of a couple of rabbit journals published in New Zealand, or ■;he names of two/>r three men that breed registered New Zealand rabbits." There is no rabbit'periodical published, and, beyond n few pets to be seen peacefully nibbling carrots in the cages of bird shops, rabbit breeding is not seriously undertaken in New Zealand as a busness proposition. —Post.

Willi all its fa nils. Iho public is a generous and long-snllering employer, T;i,ke the increases in the cost of living, for example, llie Prime Minister declares: <l l am afraid (here is no doubt (ha.t profiteering is going on.” Very well (says “Mercutio” in the Auckland Herald), since the public employs an expensive Parliament and administrative machinery to protect il from this evil, there would appear to be a prima facie case for dismissing someone. But Mr MacDonald says the Board of Trade has not had sufficient powers, and Mr Massey replies that the existing legislation, though not perfect, was workable. Ho- the Government blames the Board of Trade, and the Board of Trade —or its apologists —blames Parliament, and no one is dismissed —at least, not now; of course, it is possible the public pa lienee may not extend over the elections.