CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 59, 10 March 1921, Page 8

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

"Ley lander" questions the statement that the Dennis lire engine was the only one that the ''ovennent sanctioned manufacture of during the war. The Leyland Company was also, he states, manufacturing without restriction. "Stupid" writes condemning Ihe action of'the Auckland Education Board in opposing the issue of free railway passes to denominational schools. In the first place the people who support these schools pay their proportion oi taxation for the maintenance of the Stale secular system, and secondly, it is freely acknowledged that the public schools are in most cases already shock ingly overcrowded with little prospect of any radical improvement iv the pear I. I lire. "K.R." protests against tlie hideous noise made by the Harbour Hoard syren. The Auckland Harbour Board, tie comments, passed a by-law forbidding Steamers on leaving the \vha*rves to sound a syren because it was found to be not only a nusisanee, but a positive danger to the public through the risk of runaway horses, etc. In regard to working hours on the waterfront, he suggests starting and knocking off time could lie regulated by the foremen and gangers on the respective vessels.