The Gleam

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 4

The Gleam

MANY a man has followed the gleam, that bright, elusive aura which alone guides those who 'blaze fast, yet firmly, the single tracks of individual effort. Some of. us lose sight of the gleam through want of vision, while others, like Sewell, Superintendent of Surveys m Malaya, plant their feet, deep m the ways of ambition. C. Y. B. Sewell, tall and striking, his skin tinged deeply with the sunshine of Malay, is back m New Zealand on eight months' furlough, but his journey across the ocean holds a -wider import than one of mere . pleasure. , Twenty years over there has taught him many things; has shown him the broad prospect of pleasant opportunity for the younger men of New Zealand, and he is over here to tell our ambitious youngsters what the Straits Settlements survey department has to offer those who are willing to dig m with the spade. Sewell will hand on. to these surveyors m embryo the keys which fit the lock of unusual circumstance, the door to which is closed save to those who, dissatisfied with the humdrum of cities, have the stamina and enterprise to seek the field of work on the other side. • •