CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 13

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

f "JRK." returns to his complaint . about "the unbusinesslike methods of , the Tele"Taph Department" in respect to his wireless message to the Ulimaroa. 'He says he was not warned by the counter clerk about bad atmospheric conditions. He wishes to thank the staff for trying to send the message but he thinks that when it was found that communication. was impossible he • should have been promptly informed. i Mr F Wallace Mackenzie writes symI pathetically of Mr. Hanan's Elective Government Bill, which he regards as a ; lone -step forward in democratic government. "To say that any government in ' the past bas been elected on the votes .' of the people is'to say what is not true. All through the country—everywhere— t people are. thinking now- They are not r i.sed to it yet, but they are getting m 1 the way of stopping the thoughts pass- . Ing through their minds and recording i them there. For six monuths Ive tra_ I veiled amongst the real producers of 1 New Zealand. They used to be like " muzzled oxen, but they are thinking now i and will take their muzzles off soon. 1 A correspondent thinks that appen- ? dicitis is caused by lying on the right 1 side and so interfering with the work r of the bowels. A person should therei fore lie on his left side for at least 3 part of the night. We may mention 3 that this advice, and for the same rea- \ son, has been given by "Peritus" in the "Star" Supplement. I "Jerry" defends the fares charged on i the trams on race days. Before the t cars ran to Eilerslie "anything on I wheels" vied to charge 2/ and 2/6 to j take you out, and more to bring you s home. To the trotting ground the cars - charge the usual fare, fivepence, but 3 other vehicles do not charge less than a - shilling. . "Vulcan" admires the changes that \ have been made in Albert Park, but f thinks the iron flagstaff is an eyesore, I and should be replaced by a more pleas- _ ing pole. 1 "Disgusted" complains of being I charged for a baby nineteenth months n old at a suburban picture show. c Mr Geo J. Howes says that several II American cities with civic squares have a formed huge parking spaces or tern- " porary garages by excavating under- ** neath, and he suggests that similar \ provision be made when our square is . laid out. jfr T Clark supports the protest . against abusive methods by lawyers in a Court. Some magistrates seem to ap- , prove of this class of lawyer bullying a defenceless -man.