NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Armchair Advisers. "I think we should reserve one night in the year to have a fling at armchair advisers of the farmers," said Mr. R. A. S. Byowne at a recent meeting of the>Jdorrinsv-ille hranch of the Farmers' Union. "There are too many fellows sitting in offices in Auckland and telling tis what We should do, and that we should produce more. I think we should produce less." Some of this advice, he said, was mislpading, but on the other hand there were some Government officers whom Mr. Browne thought did know a lot about farming, and were well worth hearing. Nq Decent Wireless Sets. "I am going Home soon, and I intend to find out, among other things, why. Britain pannot place a decent wireless set on the New Zealand mar- ' ket," declared the British Trade Commissioner, Mr. L. A. Paish, at the annual dinner of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce. Unique Work for Relief Men. Works of various kinds have been undertaken from time to time as relief works since the inauguration -of the Unemployment Board. Sut Foxton lays claim to having a unique work carrie'd out in this connection. Last week one of the Foxton Borough Council gangs was detailed to conduct a burial. 'The \ day previously the gang, working on the Brown Street cutting, unearthed a skeleton Of an adult male, subseqpently identified as that of a Maori. it was decided to reinter the hpnes in the Native cemetery, and this was carried out under the No. 5 scheme. Don't We All. A. literary gem in the way of jnvenile precision appeared in an essay wxitten by a pupil of Taihape District High School last week. The subject was "A Hqndred Years Hence," and the young essayist wrote: "Schools, there are none. Instead, a ray gun is focussed on the brain and all /necessary knoweldge shot like bullets into the head. Don't I wish they knew how to do that now!" Value of Agriculture Glasses. ''All our agrieultural colleges are recpgnising what pastures mean to New Zealand," said the Hon. David Jones, Minister of Agriculture, speaking at the Rpyal Show, at Christchurch. "More experiment work is heing carried out in this direction than in any other class, and incalculable service is* being rendered. " He congratulated the Canterbury Agricultral Gollege pn the work' it had accomplished.