CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 3

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

"Kia Kaha" protests against the railway regulation which prevents the reeerI vation of seats by the night train to Rotorua. He says: "I am certain that many people prefer to spend the few days of Easter other than at Rotorua, on account of the uncertainty of securing a reasonably comfortable place for the night journey and the inconvenience of scrambling for a seat. Surely the Department realises that the chief axiom in business is to encourage patrons, not to drive them away." J.A.D. writes: "Archdeacon Chatterton has now had twenty-one days to produce a properly attested case of cure as a result of the Hickson mission in the Rotorua district and has failed to do so. Your readers can only form their own conclusions and hold that your correspondent S.D. is right in stating that there was not one single cure in that district, and they may safely extend this conclusion to other districts." "Square Deal" says she took her place among the early door brigade at Hie Majesty's theatre one night last week at 5.15 p.m. Yet, when the doors opened there was so much pushing by some young men present that great indignation was excited, but remonstrance proved in vain. She suggests better control. "Motorist," writing with reference to the parking of cars in Victoria Street West, says: "I understand that the Automobile Association has, for the convenience of its members, arranged for an attendant to keep an eye on the stand and prevent interference with cars, the attendant to be remunerated by way of gratuities. The arrangement undoubtedly is a very good one, and no doubt the majority of motorists, including myself, are ready and willing to 'tip' the attendant, though not necessarily on every occasion. At any rate there can ibe no objection to the arrangement so long as users of the stand are allowed, without interference, to use their discretion as to when and what extent they shall ' tip : ' the attendant. If,"" however, the Association has taken upon itself to instruct the attendant to request payment from users of the stand, the remuneration is no longer by way of gratuity, but is in the nature of a "toll," and is in my opinion very improper." "One Who Has Suffered" expresses satisfaction at the appointment of a I Pensions Appeal Board, and commends I the Patrotic Association for assisting j men whose first claims have been turned I down by the Pensions Department. "C.H.N." objects to the confusing by some correspondents who write on the i incidence of taxation, of land with the i products of labour. He says: "A merj chant's stock is the product of his labour, lor someone else's with whom he has made an exchange. 'Land value' is merely the market value of 'a natural I opportunity,' and one might as well j include in a farmer's 'stock in trade,' I air and rain and sunshine, which in fact i are 'land' in the economic sense. . . . j The truth is that all comparisons between land values, taxes and income taxes are worthless. The first is not a tax at all, but a rent, and is a contribution, not by the individual land owner, but by the people who create the land values, i.e., the whole community." "Eucalyptus" draws attention to the destruction by cows of flowering gum trees planted early in the year in St. ! Andrew's Road. He says it would be j less expensive to permanently protect I each tree than to go on replanting, as is j now being done.