CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 6

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

"A.T." expresses his disbelief that the Wellington-Tauranga steam service will ever eventuate. "Where," lie asks, "is the trade for two SOO-ton vessels? Certainly not in Ta-uranga. If they go to out-lying ports to try and fill"up the steamers will not suit, being too large and drawing too much water. On return trips what will they do with their coal cargo? Tauranga cannot take or use it—a few hundred tons would last them months; they would just have to dnmp it down, and keep on pTlin" it up until they raised a monument to their own and Tauranga's folly; then fall on their knees and beseech the .Northern S. S. Company to forgive them and call again." "Paterfamilias," commenting on the it"^ 0 - 1 " Axhaxxs '" "with reference to toe tramrng of hospital nurses, thinks ..that 'all should know, especially the

working man, that St. Helens home is the only place of the kind in Auckland ■where a -woman can get board, lodgings, medicine and professional attendance for an amount of money witliin the reach of any poor person, who cannot afford to pay the enormous sum of £3 to a doctor—only for attendance; and this fact alone, where no doctor is in attendance at the institution, requires first-class nurses, proficiently trained- The home in question was, and now is, only intended for poor women." Our correspondent, however, agrees that all persons engaged in nursing should have an equal chance of training for their profession.

''Constant ia," replying to "Long Sleever," says the reason that Palmerston North obtained such commendation from Mr. Justice Cooper is because "the police force were chosen specially for the town in question, to single out the beer-chewers and drive them out." He adds: "I have travelled all round the world, and have repeatedly seen the awful consequences resulting from alcoholic liquors, etc., and even in my short visit to New Zealand (namely, eight months), according to the Press I am sure there has been fully one hundred victims in this prosperous colony, where no man under ordinary circumstances would take his own life. In moderation I do believe that such liquors are conducive to the preservation of health, but to excess little else is more disastrous; and surely it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak in every British colony. I have seen honourable men and women in good positions, and respected by all, ruined, disgraced, and despised by all mankind through the liquor curse. I feel sure that any man or woman on this earth who has travelled beyond Newmarket, or Otahuhu, let alone out of New Zealand, and who have brothers and sisters who may be addicted to the curse of alcohol, must for humanity's sake, vote for No-license at the next election, and by doing so they will do more to further the interests of humanity than all the gospel and other such preachings could do on earth. I do not wish to see total prohibition carried, but do sincerely trust to see No-license carried at the general election."