CAR OUT OF CONTROL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18625, 25 February 1926, Page 11

CAR OUT OF CONTROL.

CRASH INTO BOLE. (rsuss association telsoeam.) DUNEDIN, February 24. At one o'clock this morning a Ford coupe, driven by Winstone W. Aiteheson, commercial traveller, of Kilbirnie, Wellington, got out of control through the steering wheel giving way. The car crashed into an electric- polo in Bond street, and was smashed to matchwood. Aitcheson escaped with a broken nose, but Ellen Haig, the other occupant, received head injuries. These are not dangerous.

CORRESPONDENCE.

WANT OF SLEEP. TO TBK EDITOR OP "TEX PRXSS." • Sir.—As I have found the greatest possible help an<l comfort from the following simple remedy, I ■cannot retrain from advising your Brunner correspondent to try it Procure a stick of pure liquorice from the chemist (it costs about 7(l}, chop it into small I pieces about the size of a large pea, i and have it handy in a little tin box by your bedside." Yv T heu the sleepless feeling cornea an<l vou anticipate a wakeful night, take'a small piece, or more—if necessary. In a short time the magic acts. Of course, as in most things, you must have faith. But it is such a cheap remedy, and is so harmless that all who suffer from sleeplessness can but give it a trial. There is only one thing to remember: Liquorire has a tendency to open the pores of the skin and makes you liable to catch cold, so care in avoiding cold should be taken.—Yours, etc "ONE WHO HAS BEEN THROUGH IT."

MARKET DISCIPLINE. TO THH EDITOC Off "THE P&ESS." ' Sir, —Being a casual visitor to your well-regulated and orderly city, my steps were directed towards the local Auction Fruit and Vegetable Marts, and was astounded to behold both Europeans and Celestials with pipes and cigarettes, issuing volumes of obnoxious smoke during the progress of selling, thereby percolating all classes of eatables openly displayed for disposal. The Wellington markets are controlled, I understand, by the Public Health Act, whereby tobacco smoking, during sale time,_ is a punishable offence. From a sanitary point of view, this Act should apply universally and would, I think, bo appreciated by the general public who are the consumers.—Yours, etc., COMMON SENSE. MITHEA IN BRITAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF "TITB PRESS." Sir, —Your leader on this subject strikingly demonstrates the fact that the highest precept and practice were magnificently.- blended jn the person of that greatest of all the, apostles—St. Paul. It oeeasons no surprise to be told that "even now theologians are found to maintain that the Apostle Paul was at one period initiated into the mystic rites and ceremonies of Mit'uraism." Could one expect less from one who gave to the Christian world that splondcd "imperative"—"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good?" A clarion call to the ages for the open mind, the examining mind, the critical mind, from one of the world's profoundest mystics, one of its greatest comparative religionists and "syncretic" philosophers. We have then the most excellent authority for that judicial and impartial attitude which will enable us to examine, with care and without prejudice, another "highly spiritualised religion." Your correspondent, the Key, Chas. Perry, states he has been "delighted to find some of the features of Christianity, not only in Judaism, but in other ancient religions.'' One experiences this delight in perusing that practical and classical presentation of Buddhism, Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia." A greatChristian Missionary, Dr. Miller, of Edinburgh, who founded the Christian College in Madras, in hia retirement, writing to his students, reminded them that Hinduism had given to the world those great truths of the "Imminence of: God," and the "Solidarity of Man"; and in this connexion, ;> one simply must respond to the beauty enshrined in thtfse lines from the "Bhag: avad Gita":—"By whatsoever road a man approaches Me, by that road do I welcome him, for the paths men take from every side are Mine, O Partha." """—YoiIFS etc ' COMPARATIVE' RELIGIONIST. THE PROGRESS LEAGUE AND THE WHEAT QUESTION. TO THB EDITOR OT "THB PRESS." Sir,—The attention of the Canterbury Progress League has been directed to a reference concerning the League's attitude towards the Wheat question, which appeared in a leading article in "The Press" of 20th instant. The reforence was "with the exception of the Progress League, whose silent hostility towards one of the most important of the business interests i 3 incomprehensible," Will you kindly state your, reason for assuming any "hostility" on the. part of the League towards the wheat interests beyond tho fact that the League has not yet had an opportunity of oxpressing its views upon this very important but controversial subject? As tho statement waß made in your leading columns might T suggest that your explanation be given equal prominence—Yours faithfully, P. R, CLIMIE, Organiser. February 24th. [We refer to this letter, in our leader columns.—Ed. "The Press."]