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A COUNTRYMAN ABROAD.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936.
by JOHN SUSSEX
It's Daffodil Time in
ACK home the crops will bo gathered in, leaves turning yellow, Yot hore
In Auckland on this other alde of the world the famular daffodil is already an occasional gleem by the side of garden path".
Posters
announce Daffodil Bhows soon to take place. Lambs in their thousands 'acamper be- tween the showers across grass paddocks very rich and promising. Shepherd's luck is up this season they tell me, Twins are unumally plentiful.
The kinds of cattle grazing in the Helds themselves are typical. except that breeds popular Home are not as well supported here.
The Jersey, often Been conted apoftist driving rain
harsh winds, is the dairy farmería standby, not the stouter Shorthorn. The Jerney holda tho'fleld because of ligh butter fat. The farmer's payment la on that brala, not on milk gallonage. Even so, these dainty, maure-coloured creatures stili look too dellcate for the racket of commerrit mikking to my English eyn.
Barbed wire fences Keep out ne Heather however, At one there would be thick hedges for there tender animats to shelter under. Yet, except for decantouni clumps of Maern-carpa established as wind-breaks or Wrepina Willow leaning over stresins in full flow. very few bushes or trees dot the landscape where dairying is the work. adny preoccupation.
Dense Bushes
Plenty of dense tash is preserved in the holiows and hillsides, fut even Innd-hungry nettlers have reached a stage where if they set about burning oft yet more of this luxurland aereante of native growth they are faintly haunted by an ever-spreading; notion
that such nete amount to little betler than sacrilexe.
Crities putut to the many thouands of acres, only partially cleared of stumps, or reverting from neglect to ragwert and rushes. These need the prior attention, Same mew's holdings are even now too large for proper
Afoot
New Zealand!
OLD AND NEW in New Zealand. A gate at Rotorua Hot Springs carved by
the Manrik-und a tram in the main' street of Auckland,
Bre
management. The odial move is to
reducing flen, wards
Others overstocked with mieli cows to keep up the size of the creamery eliequie whore- ever that shows any sign of shrinkage or there's more capital outing to meet,
For every homestead wearing mature, actided air of prosperity and permanence there are three her dotted about in Ra neighbourhood with nether garden ground for range of propet buildings, the lilding stat the making.
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These are the men still strugglint, most frui n trouth of depression everyone tells you about as if spraktini of a major calamity from which all are Just encrying.
Waves of prosperity or otherwing are sigulfed in terms of butter-fat, wool priera, crop of inmis or the outpat of
in Britain
With a Rucksack
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On My Shoulder
N June I devoted my space to outlining walking tours in various parts of Britain, and rashly undertook to supply further particulars to inquirers.
The result was that. In addition to the usual day to day requests for in- formation, I was atorned with applien- Uons for itineraries for the areas I hnd mentioned - lh Intica Northern Highlands, South Country and North Walts.
Much to my surprise, the route most
by TOM
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girls who were frequently surprised at the kindness of the people.
Where possible they mahl the Youth hostels, but several times They Jonnel those places full to capacity, and in
“ur demand" win the trait accessible one”-“places" where there were ĥo-hoster=
the Northern Highlands, From all over Britain came requests for particu- lars of that wall, and I seerond there would by such a rush for Caledonin's distant wilds that it would be impos sible for the scanty accommodailon available to meet thể demunu.
From letters I have since received it appears this was so, and sonte weary walker at the end of a long day's march found themselves forestalled when they sought supper and a bed for the night.
None, however, went hungry or with out shelter, for in those far and ionely places there still lingers the true spirit at hospitality au generosity scarcely curtailed by the limited tnelli- Dies avaliable,
flouses may be few and widely separ- ated, and such an exist inve often but the minimum space required by the or- cupunta. But the friendly wayfarer who knows how to meet the local folk without condescension, and who has sufficient grace to ask for a favour and not demand an imaginary right, may depend upon being received as a friendl in need.
At considerable inconvenience to themselves, these good people will often turn about, and by one alilit or another provide food and altelier for the wanderer.
A number of my correspondents dis- covered this, and they write apprecia tively of Highland hospitality. A typi cal letter comes from two Staffordshire
They sometimes hind a lengthy search before Anding a vacant bed.
One day they walked from Crom Bridge, at the head of Lueli Dulch over the Bealach na Sroine, to the grea! chasen and thundering Fall of Clo- mach. That night They had hoped to teach Strome, bal the burns were In
pate and too steep to be forded.
Downstream, they made their way with dwindling hopes of a crossing until a keep came to their ald and rowed them across the flooded river. To reach Strome in the daylight proved impossible, and at 10.30 pm. they found a haven in a crofter's cot- tage.
"They did us really well, and refused to take any payment whatever," is how they describe, their reception.
Other renders write stimilar terms. and some, having done some ploncer- ing report discoveries of accommoda- tion In unexpected places.
There are reminders that this part of Scotland is still primarily sports- mon's country, and flat the man with the gun is privileged more than the fellow with the rucksack. Even BG, there is ample evidence that the keeper is not necessarily an enemy of the way- farer.
Several correspondents report having obtained lodgings at the keepers col lagen, and I get remarks such as, “the keeper will provide bed and breakinst when the Jalrd is away,"
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The New Zealatuler's pride in her enpaelty to do this is part of the bond witch holds him' to un No wonder there's ruch a revival of patriotism Even fat cattlk have renched the price which can have very Belə inargin for the exporters to work m
Proud Pigs
Prime Deps are making nearly as sich gey on the rathe sort will be making turned ont. Lewestershire's wealthy pastures, or Beutland's either. And it is funny to see the gloger- haired Tamworth pir in an almost Brrogant command of the styes mul per
We've turned him down long ago as too stuw for the curer's require
MAS. Am that long snout of his shraki not ordinarily commend him. He re he is in proud possession anti la ever increasing numbers, will a eurt as fery as if he had teen red- oxed all over for the occasion. Yez there 19 mare to be paid for this lea and active Tamworth as a bácones than the stumpier, snubbier Berkshire who runs hun riorly as a porcine TAY Mete
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moting quarrels among farmers. One man would be prepared to swear his to away in defence of a type that he fancies, whilst his neighbour would w4x as emphatically in favour of a typa about as opposite as 'could be linngined.
Dit it is significant, something to be taken note of, how topsy-turvy breast controversies can prove. One has not to go far to ace niobs of suckling 3- lets scampering stywards at the sight of the stronger. There will be a big pig population in New Zealand before may Yents are over..
Paying Lambs
The farmera here are the those of #colland in that regard that it is only lately that they have thought it worth their while to bother with pigs.
But all eyes are on the intribs, These are still the creatures who bring the money home. These, and the wool oft their mothers' barks, are about to settle many an overdue nerourt, A kl. 11. elther way and half the fellows on the innd think of themselves as either rich or ruined.
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Government wage rates denote a £3-21 per week standard for even the and worker, With prospects Improv fog and price for primary producta rising, sich workers are almost able to demand what a muple of years back would have been considered a fancy remuneration.
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MONG the studies of Hitler -and the flat begins to grow long-Rudolf Olden's Hitler the Pawn (Gollancs) ranks high.
Mr. Olden is not only one of the ablest of German journalisis, but a man who tries, though it is not an easy thing, to discipline his political feelings by a scholar's conscience.
And yet, and yet,' In this, no in the olhem, there is something missing, One feels that Olden understands and explains everything about Hitler ex- cept the one thing that is ali impor- tait: which is why this mati, of nil men, is to-day the "Leader" of the German people.
Why ho holes, Jews, why he hates Communists, why he is passionately pan-Oormant for all this and more there is expinnation and to spare.
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he is to-day-?
Olen sums him up as a small man, vain, tormented by “on Insatiable hunger for love, adoration and ro- spect."
He cannot be credited with that true Dämonic-with that dynamic genius-which is characteristic of many great politicians."
His spiritual life is barren. "But the barrenness of Hitler's soul ia as. nothing compared with the emptiness of his mind."
Ho lacks will and energy. “The team Lure that characterises him, most strongly is volatility, a lack of balanca."
And so on.
But this is not lo explain Tiller. It is to explain him away.
But when the process is over and tho annlysis has demonstrated the unim- portance of being Hitler, the obatianto fact remains that Hitler is quite obvi only exceedingly important.
Go analyse must try again,
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FIGURES OF FIGHT By Compton Alackenzie, (Cascil, 7s. Gd.),
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