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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 17

WIRELESS PROGRAMMES.

TO TXX KDITOB OF THB PBKB3. Sir,—Several ' listeners-in" have commented on the very vulgar nature of at least one item relayed by 2Y A from the last Sunday night concert at Wellington Is it necessary to overstep the bounds of common decency?— Yours, etc., Ljiru DISGUSTED. August 6th, 1929.

SMOKINQ IN SLEEPING CABS. xo nn soiToa or thi puss Sir, —Kindly permit tne through your columns to ventilate a grievance and call the attention of the Railway Department to it. It it a practioe of the Department to condone "smoking" is the sleeping cars, bat' then cars are not fitted with sufficient ventilation for smoking. Moreover, if there not a grave danger of fire in permitting smoking in bed P I suggest, Sir, that the Department should either pat on a special car for smokers or be consistent and exercise its rule of prohibiting smoking in non-smoking cars. —Tours, etc., TRAVELLER. August sth, 1926. DOGS ON MOTOR-CARS. t» ra cnnoa or « rassa Sir,—The 8-P C.A. believes that dogs riding on,the running board* of motor cars suffer undue strain from coid and desire motorists to erect packing-caae-like boxes for their comfort. Thi* would be unsightly and at the same time fail to meet the need, in that the coid winds irould still whistle round their dom-, froaen bodies. Might > I suggest that animals so carried shoula be provided with "woollies," preferably of the romper .type Yoors, •to., pip August 6th, 1929.