TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 13

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

r iQ— Any chemist ""ill secure it for C^ u if still procurable. " T v DREAMER.— We are only prepared to publish facilitated briefly. 4JTZAC DAY OBSERVANCE. (To the Editor.) Sir—Letters have appeared denounc- • I the observance of our well-fought £v Mrs. Nicol professes to be a friend fVhe returned soldier (and was tiP re- ° n \w =ecretarv of the Soldiers' Mothers' Si now called the Southern Cross fjSie),- but is doing all she can to Enlist sympathy in an endeavour to hove this day, April 35, done away with, if men don't like losing a days pay for . c p a v why are they contented to io«e it for" all other statutory holidays? >rh e Returned Soldiers' Association wilt hard to get Parliament to pass the* measure proclaiming Anzae Day, ■April 25, to be kept as a Sunday, and I look to them to fight to the last- ditch in maintain it.—l am, etc.. A STARVED ANIMAX. (To the Editor.) gjj. flight I ask if the City Council Ins not a law that owners of vehicles gjiall liave a number or name on them for reference if occasion arises for same ? On Friday afternoon last when passing Xewton Road. Symonds Street end, I saw standing outside the hotel a cart with a most ill-fed horse attached to it. The animal's ribs could be counted, many of the joints of the spine being very prominent, the skin rubbed off in. one or two places. It was one of the moat •wretched, ill-conditioned horses I have seen for a long time. I looked over the cart for number or name to report the matter to the Inspector, S.P.C.A., but could not find either number or name as a clue to owner or horse. I would very much have liked the inspector to have seen that horse.—l am, etc., I. NOBLE. SWEET SHOP HOURS. (To the Editor.) Sir,—Will you kindly let "Uniformity' know that small lollie shops keep open early and late to allow the shopman or woman: to try and make an honest living? Frequently these shops are kept by people who are poor or not too robust, or maiden ladies who have to work early and late to make a bare living. I doubt very much whether the spread of disease would not be greater within "Uniformity's" proximity than in the usual clean, disinfected, and well-kept little shops I myself have always been for law and order, but the restrictions that are continually being forced on mc has at last had the effect of making mc close at 9 pjn. and follow the only way left to make a living.—l am, etc., MAIDEN LADY. (To the Editor.) Sir,—"Uniformity' , wants to know why lollie shops are not restricted like other shops. The reason is because they are restricted as to what they may sell, and any curtailment of their hours for business, especially in the evenings, would be the means of altering them into general shops. They could not then exist on lollies, drinks a/id ice-cream only. Hence competition would be keener than ever.—l am, etc., S'.IEEDOM. KAWARAU GOLD. (To the Editor.) Sir.—Having been brought up on the fcanka e£ the Mqlywaivt; and been a prospector and goldminer for many years, especially on rivers, I feel interested in the above. My experience on rivers, both big and" smalL has always been that any patch of gold is beached; in other words, washed up on beaches where it 'has accumulated. These beaches or points are sometimes quite a distance apart, with, little or no payable gold in the part between, and nothing where the heavy current of water is, nor in the deep pools. .New caum miners generally look into these deep pools, and sigh for the tons of gold they mentally picture, whereas the knowing old miner looks for the points where the gold ha 3 been thrown up very often high and dry. This very often happens at a bend in a river. 1 have found very payable gold in the grass feet above the river at such a bend. Once I got over lOOoz from such a patch. Gold appears not to stop m a heavy current, but to deposit on a beach as far away from the current aa possible. It is tSe same with all alluvial gold, let it bs in a river or not; it has travelled by water, and the patches are found where it has taken shelter and accumulated, sometimes leaving scarcely a trace of which way it came or went, owing to there being too much fall or current for gold to stop. Jiy opinion is that Kawarau be the death blow to mining ventures ijj Xew Zealand for many years to come.—l am, etc., PROSPECTOR. [This correspondence is closed.—Ed.] THE MOTOR XINER AOBANGL (To the Editor.) Sir,—l have read with much interest, and much amazement, the interview, published in your issue of Monday, with the designer of the Aorangi. I nave no fault to find with, the first five paragraphs. The engines run sweetly and the ship rides beautifully, which °nly makes it all the more tragic that the planning of the passenger accommodation should be so amateurish. I have before mc a plan of the accommodation for passengers on the Orama, and one of the AorangL The former shows a sound knowledge of planning, but I regret to say that the latter shows either ignorance of the first principles of planning, or else entire disregard for anything but getting in as many cabins as possible. ale. Boyd refers to the space allotted each, passenger greatly exceeding that allotted on the ships of other companies. ihcn why botch it by arrangH»g the fittings so badly. In a . special" s hi p wn y not design ".special" fittings and disregard the stock design of 40 years ago ? The fittings are not mode - r]l and are Jaced Mr. Boyd refers to the Ti W adverse remarks: he is rather ™exy, as the designer, not to have heard more of them. My experience is that the adverse remarks as to the abovementioned items are "unanimous." not only by -maiden voyagers." or "liverish" Passengers, but by seasoned world tracers. i a conclusion, let mc express my regret, with all respect to Mr. Boyd, tUat aacli a fine ship should be spoiled aL™ frangement of the passenger accommodation.—l am , etc .. ° PLANNER.