CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 9

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

'•Sauce for the Gander , ' expresses the view that the Welfare League statement that the objective of the Alliance of Labour in collective ownership is only to be achieved by physical violence, bloodeked, and civil warfare must be translated into a. threat that the accomplishment of the Alliance programme even by constitutional means would lie opposed by armed force by those holding the views of the Welfare League. y. IS. Dup wants to know whether there is any part of the British Empire or the civilised world outside the Dominion of New Zealand where it is a legal offence to state in a private letter the dividend paid by a. horse winning a race. The regulation is, lie thinks, idiotic, and a reflection on the sanity of our law makers. R. S. Mackay writes at length in justification of the Waipu branch railway. The community which originally settled the district 70 years ago is really worse off to-day in the matter of communication than it has been in its history. This is due to the efforts that have heea made to make the port navigable for small steamers having had to be abandoned,, and the trade now being carried on by a shallow draft scow that is unsuitable for carrying passengers. So Waipu is left one of the most isolated communities in the Dominion. As to the possibilities of the line paying, this correspondent has the following to say: "There is not the slightest doubt that Waipu if connected with the railway would do its fair share towards making the latter a payable proposition. Waipu has sent incalculable quantities of kauri gum citywards, and under the new method of winning gum from its flats will continue to do so. It has also produced considerable quantities of timber. In addition to these industries, it is maio'ly a farming district, producing butter, bear, mutton, wool, poultry, eggs, etc., on a fairly large scale. If al] the circumstances mentioned, in addition to others which might be put forward, were, considered fairly and fully by an impartial boiy of men,"l feel sure their decision would be that Waipu's request" for a branch railway, is not an unreasonable, oile."