CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 55, 6 March 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

"Nemo" complains of delay in the delivery of mails to and from St. Heller's Bay. He eaye: "I posted several letters on a Thursday night; they reached Short-land-street on Saturday morning. The rest of my letters .posted the same time reached Dominion-road Monday morning." With reference to the allegations of offensive language in volunteer camps, Mr. Arthur Cumniings says: "It is true, to Boane extent at Jeast, that many young men who are comparatively well behaved as civilians, immediately they don His Majesty's uniform, imagine a degree of licence is allowed them for uproarious behaviour, notwithstanding that they cosider themselves gallant defenders." Mr. K. J. yon Ameln protests against the suggestion that Newmarket should be coerced into entering a. greater Auckland. He says the people demand guarantees of equitable treatment before t&ey

Sulecriber" to the telephone writes i 'It is more than annoying when you are anxious to eend an. urgent bueinees message to your office at 'business, to receive a reply from the central again and again, 'Sony, engaged'; and then ■when you. xetufn to find that your telephone baa not been used all morning or afternoon, as the case may be. Is this due to some defection, in the mechanism, or to indifference on the part of the exchange attendants 1" Mr. John Johnson writes in explanation of the causes which produce sweated labour. He cays it ia the direct result ol the working of the law of supply and demand:—>"A! seamstreas works for half the -wages of a laundress or domestic help, because she prefers the class of work, not because more skill, etc., is required. A laundress and domestic's lab; our is not classed ac sweated, because they receive as much for one day's work ac the seamstress does for three. If, nay, a sixth of our seamstresses would turn laundresses and another sixth would engage in domestic work, the wages received for the whole three employments would be about equal, and must be either all classed ac sweated, or none. The reason the seamstress does not compete with the laundress and domestics is because the extra wages would not recompense her for the extra physical and mental suffering she would endure. Every person always (of the employments open to them) selects" that which will afford them the greatest recompense in proportion to the suffering and discomfort, and no one ia bo capable of judging this as themselves."