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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2354, 21 November 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

“The Continent in general, and Berlin in particular,” writes a critic iu the Berlin “Tageblatt,” “long since abandoned hope of enrichment from modern English dramatic literature. Apart from an occasional Bernard Shaw we are accustomed to make the ■acquaintance of authors who seem to feel that the object of the theatre is •to introduce living pictures to say pretty things for young girls. __ Of the social, religious, economic, or intellectual struggles which agitate our-tune, not a breath is observable m the English stage literature of the day. Worse conditions, indeed, arc mconceivable. It* i»s almost as if thG power of money and 1 social position, had thoroughly enslaved stage literature, for it has become nothing more than an insipid and lying study of the doincrS of the aristocratic and the rich. The recent improvements in milking machines introduced by Mr. Gillies, of Lawrenoe-Ivenuedy fame, are of great importance to the small dairy farmer. The great reduction effected in -the power brings the L.lv.G. machine within the reach of the man with 20 cows, or even less. Many farmers already possess a sniall one or two horse-power steam boiler tor operating their separator, and vine power is ample to work one or even two “L.K.G.” pulsators. The cost of installing a small plant w very tnMac Ewan and 00., Ltd., sole agents, Fort Street, Auckland. , ; Gisborne Times Job Department for Tickets, Programmes, and Circular?.