60 A Century's Changes. 



And keep it changeless ! such our claim ; 

 So answered — Never more ! 



Simple ? Why this is the old woe o' the world : 

 Tune, to whose rise and fall we live and die, 



Rise with it, then ! Rejoice that man is hurled 

 From change to change unceasingly, 



His soul's wings never furled ! 



Mr J. A. Moodie moved a vote of thanks to Mr Rain for bis 

 exceedingly interesting and very fresh and able paper, which 

 bristled with good things. He thought that Mr Rain seemed 

 to somewhat i-egret tlie disappearance of some of the surround- 

 ings, habits, and customs of the people of the beginning 

 of the century, but the paper itself showed that the changes, 

 especially in education, had been entirely for the benefit of the 

 people. 



Mr W. Dickie seconded the vote of thanks, and said that the 

 high prices of oats, kc, must be regarded as exceptional, occurring 

 as tlipy did during the years of the great war. He related the 

 experience of an old lady whom he knew, now over 100 years of 

 age, who in her girlliood had purchased a stone of oatmeal for 

 10s 6d, and so scarce was it that she found it difficult to procure 

 it even at that price. 



Mr J. S. Thomson called attention to the statement of a 

 church having existed within the camp at Carterton, and said it 

 might indicate that the camp was not Roman, but Romano- 

 British. 



Dr Maxwell Ross pointed out tliat the ciiurch referred to by 

 Mr Rain was mediaeval, and later than the camp. 



Mr Barbour stated that the churcli found at Ardocli, which 

 was undoubtedly a Roman camp, was much later than tlie camp 

 being 13th century, and in all probaVjility the camp and church 

 at Carterton would be similarly related, the chui'ch being built 

 on a part of the camp site. He also referred to the state of the 

 poor and vagrancy in the early part of the century, and pointed 

 out that many vagrants were welcomed at farm houses because 

 of the news they brought. 



The Chairman, in closing the discussion, regretted the rapid 

 loss of tradition and folklore, due to the removals of old tenant 

 farmers and shepherds. 



