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A Countryman Abroad
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· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
by John Sussex
A PROUD, ANCIENT
Ana Halo, famous Maori singer, typifies the robust beauty
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ROTORUA, New Zealand.
ATURALLY enough. when travelling. one
must
the scenic beauty spots in the country visited, if only because these must make up the tourist * bureau's itinerary 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 halled and met with in panty
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The houses they live in, the stoves they cook with, the prices in shop windows, the gossip of their evening resides. To it round from one populous centre to an other, escorted from one comfort- able hotel to the next, makes for facility certainly.
But it can become a very super- Neial 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 tea. A knock on the nearest, Udfest 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."
One's eyes wandered-round the
room.
A nimble-witted woman needed no language to tell her that every item in the commonplace abode ad interest for the foreign visitor.
Would the gentleman care to see round? Just a plain house, just the same as most of the other
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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 icon.
Our eyes met, mine asking for an explanation in view of all that was being and about the suppression of religion and 118 apparatus through- out the new Russin.
A nod that implied that so fur as this middle-aged woman was concerned there had been no aban- donment of religious colacca.
On to an adjoining room, where two small single beds denoted Juvenlies. Yes, the nod indiented, a boy and girl. And then, as if an- telpating the thought in my mind, the finger. of a big hand roughened by feld work and plain
says Mr.
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SOMEBODY once
described buny. bodies as folk suf- fering from an interferiority com- plex which just about hits it okt. if you're built that way suppose you can't help Interfering.
I've known a few, and I've always noticed that nothing dis- courages them. They'll barge in where they're not wanted, and, 'having set everybody by the ears,
move to help somebody else.
They get no thanks, nobody loves them, and you'd think they'd weary of well doing, but a stern sense of duty keeps them for ever -on-the-Jump-
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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 vaze upon that serene, very human countenance. At evening, the same searching atmosphere of a leader looking on pervaded the room. Never shall I forget the all-em- bracing indulgence emanated by this pensant woman as she com- mented, "We have our icon, the children havo Lenin."
One read the words as they fell" from her lips. No interpreter could improve on the gesture.
The dismantled churches had Ittle to tell me after that, the flow and surge of the youthful proces- sion through the holiday-making streets could be all explained in the light of that solitary picture hang, ing on the dingy wall.
So it has been here. Nothing can be more sickening than the alght of members of a proud, an- elent race obsequiously paiming off trumpery post cards and trinkots on to a deadly monotonous stream of sightseera no 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 Maoris like that hanging around the thermal fronts of Rotorun as one passed through that region employed by Nature hereabouts as something of safety- valves for the devilish ferment down below.
But what a contrast Rull, the chief, provided ten miles out! Be- hind big lands, hanging over them like a sheltering wall, rose Horo- horo,
volcanic bluff, tree- covered nearly to the top. Ruhl needed no panoplies with Horo- horo rising over his shoulders.
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About us were cleared lands, fenced pastures, grazing cattle, running water, Settlement after seltlement of native mon and women, with as much to show for their enterprise and labours as their exotle white neighbours, with the chief's own son as the best
· farmer among them,
Yet but a few years before Ruhi and his tribe wore scroungers on the outskirts of the tourists' centre, their ancient lands smoth- ered in the bracken and gorse the Invaders brought with them a cen- tury before.
And gorse spreads and flourishes In these solls by the square-mile in a single year. left unchecked,
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PROBLEM I
THE WALKING MATCH
There is a very simple explana- dien! From the 12th milestone to the 6th is six miles, but from the 4th milestone to the 1st is only Ave miles.
PROBLEM I SHILLINGS
Uncle Charles had given Mar- gery 33.
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As regards the other there are two possibilities:
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The Macri had no capital' nor machinery, Neither does he seem 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, ita woods and its waters.
Someone in authority had the Rood sense to do those things for Euhi and his landed heritage that it was not in him to do for himself or his nsociated kinsmen.
Those things done, the tractor turning the hillside bracken into pheep pastures, setting the school in the heart of the ancient settle- ment, selecting the right sort of. cattle and providing a market, and Ruhi stands once again at the en- trance to lils kingdom, his people around him.
Town le hás no lure if ́a Maori his land, water and bush about him which can yield him an easy sustenance.
That's his real habitat, and Rull was a chief again on the mornlag 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 he spoke of his land and is ver- dant new promises.
Ruhi was the chief 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 Wil- llam. "They agreed to do six miles each on the Crabchester Rond Tom did the first stretch, from the twelfth milestone to the sixth, while Dick paced him on a
Tom bicycle. Then
took the bicycle, while Dick walked from the sixth milestone to the Arst. After which, they went into Crab- chester to celebrate.'
"Who won?"
"Dick won casily. Rather strange; because, if anything, his stretch of road is more dificult. Do you think it can be that onc walks more quickly after doing a few miles on a bicycle?"
Or is there another explanation?
PROHLEM II SHILLINGS
*.
Uncle Charles changed a pound note for shillings. These le divid- ed among Mary, Margery and Martha. "Multipliention's a funny Thing" said Uncle Charles. "Mul- tiply together the numbers of shii- 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 few minutes' re- Rection. The product would be 100 more if Martha gave me five of her shillings."
"Good girl," said Uncle Charles. How many shillings had he piven to Margery? And is it 709- sible to as how many he had given to Mary and Martha?
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