CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 15

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

'Takapunian" complains of the Takapuna tram service. The trip that landed people in town at 7.30 a.m.,has been cut out, and on the next there is overcrowding. Many of the caTS are not so clean as they should he.

"Disgusted" is surprised, apropos the epidemic, that landlords are not forced to provide tenants with baths. He has had Ws rent more than . doubled, hut was obliged to put up with a dirty old bath -until it was -worn ojit, and now he has none. .-•••? \ ,1* j

Rote. John admits thjit. & Jew Maoris ine "cffflcfsm OI the' American visitors, but these are only the spendthrift, shiftless type, whose vices are also found among white men.

"Worker" thinks that the distribution of poison ior the destruction of rats is objectionable, and that rats should he destroyed by''^pga. t and:'cats-and traps.

■A correspondent wishes the statement corrected that Nepia and Paewai, of the All Blacks, were educated at Te Aute College. They are students, of the Maori Educational College, Hastings.

Whalley Stewart wishes ■ to express' the deep satisfaction of bandsmen gene-, rally at the success of the' - Ponsonby Boys' Band in winning the "C" grade, competition. That the band won against 'bands containing experienced : : adult players promises well for the future of band music here.

"Indignant Student" complains that whereas it has been the practice of the Railway Department to allow students returning to the University of Otago at the beginning of each year the. concession of first-class accommodation at second-class rates, this year on applying for this, they were informed that the Department had 'been under a misapprehension, and that only theatrical and circus parties could be bo favoured.

Aperahama Eeupene writes about the extermination of pigs on the Poor Knights Islands. If the islands have been occupied by Maoris the pigs belong to them, and the Maoris between Whangarei and Whangaruru should be given the right to kill the animals.

"Traveller" thinks the Eemuera tram should be extended to Meadowbank Road, and says the City Council's 'bus service is a failure.

"Patron" is pleased to read that the Board of Censors in the Free State are excluding films which make an appeal to the lower sex-sense and "exhibit the vices of the underworld," and commends this action to New Zealand. Some people have given up going to the pictures as a result of the degrading exhibitions they have seen. All picture theatres do not show this sort of thing, and only a small minority of the public enjoys it. J. Sim comments on Mr. E. C. Cutten's recent address on educational training, Mr. Cutten, he says, advocates a "religion of love," yet ends by deploring that many of our young people have not built their learning on the solid foundation of understanding that 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning Of wisdom.'" How does Mr. Cutten reconcUe these antagonistic objectives? "Further, how can fear of any sort be a solid foundation for building integrity „* Mmrftcter' Fear has cramped the Ltintellect, clouded human happiSS? fostered, cruelty ™ d Superstition, so why should it be cultivated!"