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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1922, Page 4

“One thing that impreaaed me in America,” stated Mr. J. M. Hott, speaking to a Wellington Times representative on his trip round the world, was the tremendous enthusiasm the people have for replanning and beautifying their towns and cities, the pride they take in their fine buildings, and.in the development of their park*. Thefe is no doubt that America is leading the world in regard to these matters. What is being done in Chicago in this direction is most marvellous. They are replanning the city regardless of cost, and making it one of the finest cities in the United States—in fact, one of the finest in the Northern Hemisphere.”

Every conceivable cause for war could be found in the County of London, said Archbishop Julius in the course of his address on the objects of the League of Nations at Dunedin last week (reports the Star). There were racial differences, end every conceivable religion under the sun was represented. There were also political and economic distinctions, and yet the 7,000,000 people of London were controlled by the pair of gloves of a policeman. The law was only effective wken it represented the force of opinion, and it was opinion that lay behind the control of these 7,000,000 people. The Empire contained every conceivable element of division, strife, or cause of war—racial, religious, political, and economic—ai|d yet the people worked together on the whole happily controlled by common opinion. There were more Scotsmen in London than in Glasgow, more Jews than in Palestine, and there were Irishmen and Italians, and yet all these different nationalities lived and worked in harmony in that great city. Was there, he asked, any unifying influence for the world of nations? He said there was, but it could only bp found from r common source. The Kingdom of Ged was the one centralising influence which covered all the nations of the world. He thought the only hope of peace was the realisation that God was the King of all the earth.

Those gardeners who do not aspire to growing prize roses or sweet peas for exhibition at the New Plymouth Horticultural Show will still find in the section for cut flowers 6R classes in which they may enter. These include practically every variety of flower grown in the average garden. A special prize is offered for a specimen of a new or rare plant not previously exhibited in New Plymouth. There is also a class for collection of New Zealand flowers and berries and one for flowering shrub l . Mr. C. Goodson, of Hawera, has been appointed judge for cut. flowers, ferns, roses and sweet peas. For further particulars see prize schedules, and • the advertisement in thia issue.