SPECIAL FEATURES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 123, 16 January 1932, Page 4

SPECIAL FEATURES

PAGE 3: SHOPPING PAGE. PAGE 8: TOURIST INFORMATION Hopeful Happening at Ypres. There was a strange and hopeful ■happening at Ypres the other day. Early in the morning 600 Germans got out of the train and marched to the cathedral. There they took part in a service of remembrance. It was All Souls Day, when the ehurch gives thanks for the memory of those loved and lost in peace and war. Afterwards the leader of these former enemies made a speech, in which he said that they hoped the saerifice of all will not have been in vain. This pilgrimage of the 600, he said, was to show that they desire peace.

Remarkable Escape. The large number of level-crossing j accidents will direct attetntion to the j marvellous escape of a Bristol motor- j ist. Just as he was about to cross j the railway lines near the city he saw the headlights of an approaching goods train, which was almost upon him. Thinking he had neither time to pull up, nor to cross, he swung his car round and drove at top speed along the railway line in front of the train . The driver of the goods train, realising the danger, put on his brakes and managed to pull up within a few feet of the car, which was considerably damaged by its rough journey of about 200 yards over railway lines and sleepers. Cattlestops on New Zealand lines wpuld make this an impossible feat.

VYatches May be Dearer Women of to-day are content to wear the type of beads and imitation jewellery that the explorers of previous generations took to savages, a leading Christchurch jeweller declared when speaking on the subject of the decreased demand from womenfolk for good-class articles of adornment. He said that although women still wore good watches, they were content to wear ls lOd beads. A few years ngo women would hesitate to wear these articles, but to-day it was the usual thing. There was a ready sale for watches, and this had to some extent compensated for the decreased demand for the better class of jewellery. He said there was no question, however, that with the exchange rate and the new duty watches would beeome far dearer in the future.

Unique Experience. A young Wanganui man statbs that he had a unique experience on New Years' Eve (says the Wanganui Herald). When he cleared the mail he noticed a letter addressed to himself in what he took to be the handwriting of a lady. On opening the letter he found that he was being addressed in terms of endearment by a lady residing in the country and inviting him to corne and visit her during the holidays. In addition a bank note was enclosed to pay his expenses. Up to the present he is not quite sure whether he has ever met the lady, and is in a quandary as to whether it is a case of love at first sight on the part of the writer, Iii the meantime he is holding the bank note awaiting further developnients. . *

Purple Patches. The purple patches in political speeches are received with rapture at the time and remembered with rancour afterwards. Lloyd George's declaration at the end of the war that Britain was going to he made a country fit for heroes to live in, was one of these magnificent pieces of . claptrap that thrills the world for a week and chills it for years. It was unmitigated bunk when it was spoken, and, as a prophecy, has been qpm-. pletely falsified. The only world fit for heroes to live in would be one inhabited solely by heroes. That popuI lation cannot be found in any country so long as human beings remain just ( human beings and nothing more.