Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 8

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

EXAMINATION LISTS The results of the University Entrance Scholarship examination will be announced within the next few days, and I would respectfully suggest that arrangements be made for publication of the results in full immediately they become available. In the past the local papers have sometimes deemed it sufficient to publish the names of the scholarship winners and the names of the local candidates who passed with credit. As this examination represents the peak of secondary school examinations it is surely not too much to ask that a column be provided once a year to announce the results in full. This examination means a great deal to candidates, and even for those who do not gain scholarships the relative place on the credit list or matriculation list means a great deal. INTERESTED. TEAM DRIVING Sir, — It was with the greatest interest that I .read your able article on team driving, and I was also pleased to i-ad your comments on Saturday last in respect to the unanimous resolution passed by the Canterbury Owners’, Trainers’ and Breeders’ Association, to the effect that “the newspaper comment throughout the Dominion on this ™tter was unwarranted and uncalled Without having read all the other !^I S e aPer commen t in respect to the Park T S^“? er meeting at Alexandra I hTe e * ? ay ° lat all With Whom it iS ~neh ,? n . contact, agreed that it lb buch articles as yours that are "°To n e eCe t S9ary - lf the sport of trottfng general° public, ‘ tS P ° PUiarity with the tbo h n PUblic will not be satisfied by by° n=X, 01 wWd l imo mlh e t S ° t lUtiOn ? nn in Hr +J - 1 might consist of a n n ly as °4c7aTorwiSi ho a uf.eTu”?Ts in thT’amed® interesting to know if, « i tI-w- i! 11 . sport of galloping, there HoS ofwWch and Traine - rs? Assocli. bers. h h owners are also mem0.\ T £ OF THE PUBLIC.

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Sir, — Tour correspondent “A Er ” disease. ' Further oi“h h -® ,? aid about Of all these diseases ; contraction sometimes < ?- ue the man himself \ . ne^l ß' e nce of Proper care of ho takes tract these'diseases It is th«? eVer con ~ lives in the smoir-fr tie man who the city, retire™°ate Pols ? n , ous air of conti ary to all the laws of health and

Nature—that is laid low with sickness in the long: run. Now that the teaching’s of Spiritualism are accepted by those who have investigated thoroughly “A.E.C.’s” views, limited as they are to this sphere of life, are not to be Taken seriously. He laments the fact that the just are struck down with the unjust by storms, etc., and therefore shows himself to be sorry because some good man has passed to a higher and a better life. I would like to warn “A.E.C.” not to translate the Bible too literally. That is one of the greatest mistakes of the day. When God told Adam that in the day he ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil he would die, he did not mean that Adam would actually depart this life. He meant that the knowledge would change his nature from one that was simple and innocent to one that knew and worked evil; that is, it would kill the good in him. I think that “A.E.C.” should discard lus dark spectacles, and inquire deeply into a matter before he essays to give his opinion on it. W.R.E.C. COUNCIL DEALS Sir, — Yesterday the occupier of a large six or seven -roomed house in Remuera Road, about six doors from the Post Office, vacated, we understand, on instructions by the owner, the City Council. We are informed that the house is to be demolished, and in its place erected either a petrol service station o.r a block of shops. This appears extraordinary to us, as if there is to be a petrol station, there already are some three within a couple of chains of the house, and if there are to be shops, then there are eight other shops empty within five chains. Moreover, we know that late last year about November, several workmen spent weeks in repainting, papering and renovating the house in question, probably at a cost running well into three figures. Finally, the house, as it stands empty, is in an excellent position, and for renting purposes must be valued at between £3 and £3 10s weekly. This letter is written in strong protest at the sort of chopping and changing that has cost,, the ratepayers, who own the property, many thousands of pounds in the past couple of years. ONE OF SEVERAL. In reply to this letter, the town clerk, Mr. J. S. Brigham, states that the house has been used by a council employee, and the council has decided to remove it as the area is too valuable commercially to leave it with an old house on it. The house is being removed to another site. In place of losing money tho opinion of the council is that it will make money by the change.—Ed.. The Sun. THE DESIGN ARGUMENT Si.r, "Free Thinker” begs the name of some Auckland or New Zealand theologian who has given up the design argument. Unfortunately (or perhaps not) this country is not overburdened with Professors of Divinity, and I know of no works of theirs on I the subject. I was referring, of

course, to the wider field of the genus found in Europe. Some evidence. The Rev. C. J. Shebbeare, M.A., ChCh.. Oxon., Preacher to the University of Oxford, Chaplain to the King, etc., in his opening address at the Church Conference of 1921, stated, “And here in the last century the Argument from Design came into conflict with Darwin. The defeat of this argument on its own chosen grounds (adaptation of organs, etc.), has made a lasting impression.” Of course, this gentleman has another proof of his own, based on aesthetics, but his statement of the demise of the old design argument was quietly accepted by the conference. Again, Mr. Moberley in "Foundations,” by “Seven Oxford Men,” accepts Professor W. James’s statement that the old theistic arguments, including that from design, now do “little more than gather dust in libraries.” “Freethinker’s” free thought evidently has severely circumscribed limits, and as a result, his laboured attempts at satire (reminiscent of American anti-evolutionist-fundnmen-talist writers) fall rather flat. Satire to be effective requires fact behind it. Let him peg away at the ideal connoted by his pen-name, however, and he may yet arrive at the truth. A.E.C.