MR POOLE AND WAIHI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 321, 7 June 1911, Page 8

MR POOLE AND WAIHI.

THE INVEIICARGILL STATEMENT. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Auckland, June 5. Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., in addressing a meeting at the Opera House on Sunday, again denied the accuracy of the report of his remarks at Invercargill concerning Waihi. He declared that the idea of personal violence to women never entered his head when speaking at Invercargill. What was in his mind was a riot which occurred some years ago, when the police were mobbed while trying to enforce the Licensing Act, and were subjected to treatment that was not only disgraceful but dangerous. Having that in his mind, be said that when rocks were thrown women were not safe. He would like to ask if pressure was not brought to bear on the Department to get those policemen removed, if there was not a refusal, whether the riot was not the outcome of that • refusal, and if the people of Waihi did not consider the liquor traffic such a menace in their midst that they wiped it out! Sergeant Sheehan and others were subjected to bad treatment, and he said that where policemen were ill-treated no woman was safe. The audience, by a show of hands, accepted Mr. Poole's statement as satisfactory, only one person expressing dissent.

What is believed to bo one of the longest ferro-concrcto piles ever cast was recently made by the Auckland Harbor Board's staff, and is now lying alongside the breastwork of the Calliope Dock reclamation at Devonport. The pile, which has, a length of 103 ft., is 20m. square, and weighs no less than 17 tons. It will be used at the deepest point reached by the piles in connection with the Queen street wharf reconstruction. Several piles of a length of between 80ft. and 100 ft. will be required for the work, but there will be only the one of over 100 ft. in length.

A new chum, intent upon " taking down" a young Australian, said, "My boy! This country may develop into something some day, but at present I fail to see the least justification for your Australian blow!" "Do you really, now?" retorted the Australian. "Well, I'll open your eyes a bit. What about Melba, McKennal, Oscar Asclie, Noble, Trumper, Giffen, Beaurepaire, Wootton k Gray, Donald Mcintosh, Bill Beach, Searle, Norman Brookes, Donaldson, Tom Burrows, Miss Kellerman, Clark the cyclist, and young Davis, the world-beater over hurdles! Ido like to hear you new chums taiK about champions—why, you don't know you're born!"

The Dunedin Star is in a position to state that the Royal Commission which enquired into the North of Auckland railway route,, have completely vindicated the action of the Minister of Public Works, who two years ago authorised a deviation of the line to the westward of what is locally known as "The Gap" and tapping the country in the neighborhood of the Otamataea river. As ft sidelight it may be mentioned that the bridge over the Otamataea river, which, according to some witnesses was to cost the country between £40,000 and £45,000, will be constructed for about £21,000. The report will be presented to Parliament in due course.

The commander and the surgeon of the Pioneer have committed themselves to the assertion that "there is something to be desired in the physique of the young New Zealander" (says the Auckland Star). The figures on which these conclusions are founded represent a very limited experience of the physique of New Zealanders, and it is surely unfair to base any opinion about the physical stake of over a million people on an examination of 145 specimens. It is regrettable that strangers, after so brief an experience of this country and its people, should imagine that they are in a position to express views so misleading and injurious about us. However, the athletic prowess of New Zealanders is world renowned, and we cannot imagine that the many thousands of people who have watched New Zealand footballers play at Home, and admired their magnificent physique, will attach any importance to the casual comments of'the Pioneer's officers. When you get Roslyn you get the best in all-wool blankets, rugs, tweeds, Worsteds, hosiery, unshrinkable flannel and underwear, "Delta" finish; so when purchasing woollen goods always say, "Roslyn, please."—Advt.