A Countryman Abroad
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
by John Sussex
A PROUD, ANCIENT
Ans Hato, famous Maori singor, typifies the robust beauty of her people.
N
ROTORUA, New Zealand.
ATURALLY enough, when travelling, one must
thic see
scenic beauty spots in the country visited. If only because those must make up the tourist bureau's inerary points, almost inevitably-they form a beaten track for the wayfarer.
Yet the thing one is always look- ing for is as many contacts as may be with the everyday lives, the simple, casual interests, of the people hailed and met with in pars- Ing.
The houses they live m, the stoven they cook with, the prices in shop windows, the gossip of their evening resides. To ft round
from one populous centre to an- other, escorted from one comfort- abie hotel to the next, makes for facility certainly.
But it can become a very nuper- fictal undertaking kept all on that orderly basis,
Years ago in Russia perhaps the most illuminating moment of a long, exhausting and escorted trip arose out of an unarranged halt at a village door.
Icon- and Lenin
The day was hot, a nice pretext for a glass of green ten. A knock on the nearest, tidlest looking door, and a wrinkled face, framed in wide plaits of greying hair, ex- claimed, via the guide," Certainly, walk in, but look kindly at the humble furniture."
room.
One's eyes wandered round the A nimble-witted woman needed no language to tell her that every item in the commonplace abode had interest for the foreign visitor.
Would the gentleman care to sse round? Just a plain house, Just the same as most of the other
houses in the town." Exactly what one was looking for. And there in the corner of the larger bedroom, high on the wall, hung the all-re- vealing Jeon.
Our eyes met, mine asking for an explanation in view of all that was being said about the suppression of religion and its apparatus through- out the new Russia.
A nod that implied that so far as this middle-aged woman was concerned there had been no aban- donment of religious solaces,
On to an adjoining room, where two small angle beds denoted juveniles. Yes, the nod indicated, boy and girl. And then, as I an-
my ticipating the thought 111 mind, the finger of a big hand roughened by field work and plain
says
Mr.
Peppercorn :
SOMEBODY once described busy- bodies as folk auf fering from an interferiority com. plex which just about hits it off. If you're built that way I suppose you can't help interfering.
I've known a fow, and I've always noticed that nothing dis courages them. They'll barge in where they're not wanted, and, having set overybody by the ears, move on to help somebody else.
They get no thanks, nobody loves them, and you'd think they'd wenty of well doing, but a stern sense of duly keeps them for ever on the jump.
Dropping a hint has no effect. I once offered a-well-meaning meddier some helixeine and ex- plained its popular
name WRS
'Mind your own business," but he fancied white saxifrage instead. which is "Johnny jump up and kiss mel"
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boards pointed to the large oleo- graph of Lenin 'covering nearly one-half of the wall opposite the beds.
Morning, and their respective occupants' eyes would first open to gaze upon that serene, very human countenance. At evening, the same scorching atmosphere of a leader looking on pervaded the room. Never shall I forget the all-em- bracing indulgence emanated by this peasant woman as she com- monted, "We have our icon, the children hava Lenin."
One read the words as they foll from her lips. No interpreter could improve on the gesture.
The dismantled churches and Intle to tell me after that, the How and surge of the youthful proces- sion through the holiday-making streets could be all explained in the light of that solitary plcture hang- ing on the dingy wall,
So it has been here. Nothing can be more sickening than the sight of members of a proud, nn- clent race obsequiously palming off trumpery post cards and trinkets on to a deadly monotonous stream of sightseers so like yesterday's. And when units of a fine col- oured race hang on the outskirts of the white man's town how easily they seem to deteriorate, become the mendicants and casuals about the place!
A Contrast
There were Maorls like that hanging around the thermal f
of Rotorua as one passed through that region employed by Nature hereabouts ns something of safety- valves for the devilish ferment down below.
But what a contrast Ruhl, the chief, provided ten miles out! Be- hind big lands, hanging over them like a sheltering wall, rose Horo. boro, Д volcanic blu, tree- covered nearly to the top. Ruhi needed no panoplies with Hora. horo rising over his shoulders.
About us were cleared lands, fenced pastures, grazing cattle, Settlement after running water. settlement of native men and women, with as much to show for their enterprise and labours as their exotic white neighbours, with the chief's own son as the best farmer among them.
Yet but few years before Ruhl and his tribe were scroungers on the outskirts of the tourists' centre, their ancient lands smoth- cred in the bracken and gorse the Invaders brought with them a cen- tury before.
And gorse spreads and flourishes In these solis by the square mile in single year, left unchecked.
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PROBLEM I
THE WALKING MATCH There is a very simple explana bion! From the 12th milestone to the Gh is six miles, but from the 6th milestone to the 1st is only five miles.
PROBLEM II SHILLINGS
Uncle Charles and given Mar- gery 33.
As regards the other girls, there are two possibilities:.
1. II. 3s. 39. 13a. 12s. 14. 50,
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The Maori had no capital nor machinery. Neither does ho scen capable of a sustained planned assault upon adversity. But one thing he has in that direction, and that's a rare love of the land, its woods and Its waters.
Someone in authority had the good sense to do those things for Ruhi and his landed heritage that it was not in him to do for himself.
.his. associated kinsmen.
or.
Those things done, the tractor turning the hillside bracken Into sheep pastures, setting the school in the heart of the ancient acttic- ment, selecting the right sort of cattle and providing a market, and Ruhi stands once again at the en- trance to his kingdom, his people around him.
Town life has no lure if ́s Maori has land, water and bush about him which can yield him an casy sustenance.
That's his real habitat, and Rubi was a Chief again on the morning I called on him to look over his re- covered pastures and flocks.
He talked of milking machines and roads and the blessings of electricity, but the real glint in his eye flashed answering to that morning's spring sunshine when ho spoke of his land and Its ver- dant new promises.
Ruhi was the chlef again after years of haunting the wasting out- skirts of an alien civilisation,
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Mid-Week Problems
PROBLEM I
THE WALKING MATCH
Tom and Dick have been hav- ing a walking-match," said WR- Ilam. They agreed to do six miles each on the Crabchester Road, Tom did the first stretch, from the twelfth milestone to the sixth, while Dick paced him on a Tom took the bicycle. Then bicycle, while Dick walked from the sixth milestone to the first. After which, they went into Crab- chester to celebrate."
"Who won?"
"Dlek Won enally.. Rather strange; because, if anything, his stretch of road is more difficult. Do you think I can be that one walks more quickly after doing a few miles on n bicyclo?"
Or is there quother explanation?
PROBLEM II
SHILLINGS
Uncle Charles changed a pound note for shillings. These he divid ed among Mary, Margery and Martha. "Multiplication's a funny thing," said. Uncle Charles. "Mul tiply together the numbers of shil- lings that you three girls respec- tively have, and what's the answer, Mary?"
Mary told him.
"That's right. Now, Margery, I should like to fix things so that that product is increased by '100. How can I do that?"
Margery pondered. "I know," she said after a few minutes' re- flection. "The product would be 100 more if Martha gave me five of her shillings,"
"Good girl," said Uncle Charles. How many shillings had he glurn to Margery? And is it pos sible to say how many he had given to Mary and Martha?
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Indies
9 One of the first announcers.
10 Sul keeps Brother Jonathan
dry.
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