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predominance of the American pic

nooth Cal

Svekomed: King Edward VIE. m 1903 with 1 warenth and hos

-very greatly pleased almost tragic matter of factness how;

that monarch of social "ging. The in spite of innumerable bumankartan

with King Edvard's racing colours was "happy, ides of decorating the college. sacieties and a great body of humane opinion, our-penal code and cor pre-

Dr. Mannix s, and that and, the recep- son system, alike contigne to make This predominance is well known to tion given the King greatly displeased, the bad worse and to transform de- people in Britain, who, hike ourselves the extreme: Nationalists of those cent beings into-wretched creatures in the Dominions, have had to put up days lese to all moral sense. It is the pub with the unchallenged monopoly of the

It was a happy moment for Ireland, he which needs enlightenment on this American producer and actor during so far as the auguries went with the past six abnormal years. But Lord Dudley as Viceroy and George matter, says "home" paper: The League will have accomplished a great Britain is Britain; the peril I refer to Wyndham as Chief Secretary, and thing if it does no more than make is in the far-off parts of the Empire with King Edward jo back them up, readily available that large accumula The Briton is surrounded by British the Golden Age of Irish peace and toa of knowledge in dealing with things and British influences, but the prosperity seemed out to devn." crane which has been rendered poser's connection with B-King Edward had come to Ireland shle by modern psychological re- it is distast de time and space and in a mood of friendship for the Irish. search. To punish, for instance, has to stand the strain placed on The story was that his Ministers had mentally defective person, as Dr. by an environment very diferent from strongly opposed the Irish visit on the James Glover his pointed out, is just that of the Old Comtry. The about as nation and sensible as to Dominions mad is therefore much round that it was not safe. flag an Australian aborigine for failure susceptible to the weaning needs and classes had what we call

Buence of the American film.

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Recently there has been restored to Westminster Abbey, after an ab

ing to comprehend Einstein's theory

~ As a matter of fact, the Irish of all.

grab that is to say, a soft

Picture theatres, as they are called out here are enormously popular, and in their hearts for King Edward, not only because he was a sportsLT producer, the American play, and the be very friendly to the Irish claine for some years past the American

but also because he was reported to American actor have had it all their and to like the Irish, as his mother own way in them. The vir drove the did not.

MIND-BECOMES DEGRADED This lack of judicial intelligence it alliance with a bad system, is the root of indiscriminating" punish- ment. As for prison liever the Brusndustry, nght off the He said to Lord MacDonell (then

Hog Island's shipbuilding days, sence of nearly 100 years, the ori- varders are, degiming to realise of screen and any visitor from another | Sir "Antony)? Are the Irish di hare probably come to an end withinal wrought-iron railing, or grille to acknowledge, frankly its hopeless world visiting New Zealand "might toy? *

the launch of seven freighters at the plant, which permitted of continuous operations on fifty building ways when the building programme was at its height Within the space of an hour sesen fabricated steel carg carriers were put into the water. There are no more vessels to be con- structed, and it is anticipated that the yard will close down as soon as the ships now in the wet basin are

fitted out.

Since the first rivet was driven at Hog kland a total of 122 ships bare been launched. Of this number, how ever, twelve of the ships were tran sports to be employed by the United States Army in the carriage of troops

which guarded, the beautiful tomb of influence. Keep the youngsters out Mary Queen of Scots in the Chapel of Henry VII.

have concluded From: they advertise-

They want education and they want security in their land,

1 shall come to Ireland with an Education. Bill in one hand and a Land Bill in the other."

altogether, represents their attitude mens on the boardings and the plays ed"

*No, sir, but they are discontent- The real and most brutal thing about The grille, which is believed to be grisen life, declares one who has themselves that New Zealand was an "What do they wante of Sussex workmanship, was first undergone the experience, is that American possession. erected under the orders of one "after being there for Some tite one. This food of American play any Cornelius Cure, the architect of the does not realise the unnatural condi- of them rubbish has caused anxiety monument to the Queen, when her tion under which one is living. The body was removed from Peterborough mind becomes degraded to the level command of her son, James I of understand what a brutal thing it is Cathedral to Westminster Abbey. by of prison experience, and one does not

England. The time of its forging One goes out and one is prepared to would be about the year 1813. For come back again. One does not un more than 200 years it stood. undis derstand that it is one's own being turbed, and an illustration of it ap-which is lowered and degraded by it." pears in the History of the Abbey That is why the present systera is Church of Westminster, published sot deterrent and preventive,

and the Education Bill were indeed This story was told to me by the late Barry O'Brien. The Land Bill

out the grounds of general debasement of taste and of its possible effect in

about the effect of this endless stream weakening the British connection.

Some educationists are aimed of sentimentality and sensation on the given, ver young mind, and there have been many appeals to the Government remaker in a special sense that the right tighten up the censorship,

royal reception was given by the pre- There can be no doubt that it is sident and staff of St. Patrick's Col- killing appreciation of the spoken play.lege.

So it was to Edward the Peace-

in 1811. It was taken down,with Here is damming evidence at first many similar monuments, in 1822 by hand; and the same witness declares, and particularly the good play. Hard-It is an odd whirligig that sect King Gayfere, the Abbey mason, under the with examples fo prove his case that any of the notable productions of Edward's host with all the doors direction of the architect Wyatt, and under the brutal prison system youths the London stage in comer and drama Ireland closed in his face and himself in 1826 sold, for £110 to John who enter crying and in the fight are seen here now; it was very diffe: in a sense the prisoner of the British Bridge, of the firm of Randell and condition for being influence: benet twenty years ago. Bridge. the celebrated. Georgian ficially become after a month "the silversmiths, and installed at his most hardened little devils you can residence, the Manor House. Piddle find anywhere; they have been made

There, such by contact with their fellow trent hide, near Dorchester..

But it is the effect of American plays in weakening the innumerable ties that bind us to Britain that should be especially noted, particularly by British film-producers, who, to the

Government. One wonders how the diplomatic King would have regarded the situation a rire which the Govern ment has created for itself?

Other royalties have been welcomed to Maynooth besides King Edward of

The American playwright and this Elizabeth. Empress of Austria, who

vestments..presented by the ill-fated":

and supplies. The construction of the Hog Island shipyard was effected val a cost in excess of 63,000,000 dels The plant and property expenditures, as recorded in the Shipping Board at an auction sale in 1941, a men-soners and by the system under whach ( joy of many New Zealanders, are hard England. They showed me there the report of June 30, 1919, show that The Government had expended $65,250,838 dols, at that time.

at work agai

as the unspoken-deals with a world or two seasons about the later seven- that is essentially un-British Stage ties: The present Archbishop bl Americans have ways of speech, ways Dublin. Dr. Weish, was then presi of life, that are very different from dent

There is a story that Maynooth wel- Byours mean of course the comed the Empress on a day when British Empire's. I do gol mean that she had met with a hunting mishap

QUES

ber of the firm of Messrs. G. R. they live. in prison." The evidence Harding art dealers, secured the of those who have been in a women's grille which has now been bought grison is that, so far as the young No announcement has been made by the National Art Collections Fund girls are concerned, these places are applies to the spoken drama as well hunted with the Kildares during one as to what will be done with the Hog and returned at last to its rightfullinle more than educational estab

Ishments for prostitutes." land plant. There are ten perman- place.

A prison officer said to Mr. Fen- rent piers. The plant has ample rail

ner Brockway, with the utmost serï-- Eroad facilities and warehouses The

ousness: "I would rather have my suggestion has been made that Hog

boy dead then have him in the prison, Island will be converted into a Freight terminal for the port of Philadelphia The Shipping Board recently exercised its option to buy the proper upon which the plant stads from the American Interna tional Shipbuilding Corporation. It has not advised what it proposes to do with the world's largest ship- bullding plant, however.

While there has been some criticism of the fabricated steel ships, Admiral Benson,

Board, recently staled that the Hog Island ships had proved to be 100 per cent effcient, The "Quistconck," the first vessel to be delivered, was named and christened by Mrs. Wood row Wilson. The claim has been made that the steamer has sailed more than 65,000 miles since her de very without being dry docked more

KEEPING FISH FRESH-

→ICE NOT NECESSARY,

PROCESS THAT VILL SAVE THOU-

SANDS OF TONS...

because in the case of nine out of

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en of the boys here their after re- every Dominion should model its life at its doors. Her lang habit could cord is that they are in and out, innish life; we must each of us hardly be lifted without displaying the and out. They become experts in have our own national life. But there masculine garments beneath, and the criminality by the treatment which we certain traits of character story runs that a student's gown was they suffer here and by the experiods of expression and ideas lent to her to cover up this awkward

common to Britain and the Dominions, ness. Daily Mat ence which they gain-bère.”:

and those who wish to strengthen the PROPOSED REFORMS... new method of keeping fish

Some of the popods for reforma British connection look to their pre- fresh has been found, fee will no which the league hope to introduce station. It is these common ties, longer be needed. One result will be by way of a Parliamentary Bill danger of being weakened by the ever. these common heritages, that are in

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et prises other dude large centres will be stabilised...

The establishment of a commission Mr. John Lyon, hon secretary of to secure the effective carrying out of the Fish Friers' Association, told a probation throughout the country.... Daily Chronicle representative that The establishment of separate

he had tested the secret method, and places for the confinement of remand had proved that fish can be kept quite prisoners: fresh without ice for five days. Ex The transfer of the prison medical perts found it good in appearance and service to the Ministry of Health, and taste. Atten

of prison education to the Board of "This process, if. widely adopted, Education August 5, 1918, the Hog will revolutionise the fish trade, he The establishment of a board to plant, with the launching of said It will save hundreds of advise the Prison Commissions as to

7,500 ton freighters, will

floving stream of American Sentiment that runs through the crowded pic ture theatres.

The American of the American pic ture is too often crude, flamboyant,

A SNAKE CHARMER.

DEADLY. VIPER.

956,730 deadweight tons of fons of fish in a year it will stabi- classification of prisoners, with a vieZealanders they represent ble by the beating of the reptile's tant

GIRL'S THRILLING ADVENTURE.

reticent, and over-sentimental. He into the blouse of a sleeping girl was deadly viper which had crept

poor representative of a great enticed away under thrilling aroun people. In his own phrase, he shops stand by her mother. The details over" badly.

are given in a telegram from Pau. These plays reek with crude France materialism, in over sweet and sticky. The girt hid igilen into-à sleep in sentimentalist, and a false sensation the garden of her parents- hillside ism. Yet to thousands of New villa. She was suddenly awakened against her fact. Although terrified, rupted, but sise their wider, national she dare not scream for bein. She Ity is subtly menaced it may be said continued to lie perfectly still, hop that British films have similar faults. ing the sunke would creep away. Some of them have, though not in the The viper, however, showed no some degree and not quite of the same sign of leaving in strange resting kind. But the point is that they are place. At the end of ten minutes, British Tavits, not American when the girl was in a state of cod- British producers have important lapse her mother came to look for work to do opt here, work that is in her With great presence of mind a very real sense. Empire building after signziling to her daughter, to These who take these things to heart remizin still, the mother Tin into the team with great interest and pleasure house, and gor a bowl of milk This that the industry in Great Britain is she boiled and rant back to her daugh

to the waters of these prices, because at present wele Securing for them such conditions Not only is the taste of patrons cor- This means that one have to pay one-day for what wel is will be most likely to fit the

contubated woe tenth could have had for 15. the day before, lend useful, law-abiding lives after Zel tonnage constructed and very often the two lots are part wards.

eet Corporation of the same catch Fish will be The transfer of reformstory schools cheaper also, because ice in these and industrial schools from private Shipyards Inc., days is expensive, and there will no control to the Home Office and Board ship for the Ener- longer be need of it."

of Education respectively. orstion on July 29.] ↑ Mr. Lyon added that Mr. Maine. thipbuilding plant in", who is now in -London after spend- district to complete ing a number of years on the Gold Government. Coast, is making himsell responsible

for the process.

~ The publication of prison rules.

Further facilities for the transfer

of the sick to ordinary hospitals,

Abolition of the silence rule and of the use of the strait jacket, with *** Alt.1 know. pf the method," he limitation of separate confinement. sad is that the fish is passed Abolition of the ticket of leave through a series of tanks which con- system.

to and maguin in full swing, and they hope itter, followed by the servant with a tain the preserving mixture. The Introduction of a system of wages will oust the American from its dan beavy club. She placed the bossing idea is so simple that, hundreds off and prison Work-

gerous monopol

tons of fish can be trested in a day These are practical proposals for by, one man.” “The suggestion-is amelioration; they are also vise and that the (anks should be installed in humane.

big fishing ports, and that the

criches should be treated by the new

method before they are sent away to Beginning / August -- 15.

Lyod added that he is not finan merested in the suprestion.

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