CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19734, 26 September 1929, Page 11

CORRESPONDENCE.

• Correspondent! who do not comply with pur ruin i»t cut ic the Isft column of our • •■nder page will excuse Uk from noticing their Utters. George Lee.—Secretary, >:. Z. Dairy ***- <i'-<-e Beard. P.O. Box 398, Wellington. CHILDREN ON CASHMERE TRAMS. TO THE SDITOB Ut THK W-ESS "■Mr, May T through your columns protest against the restrictions placed on school children who use the Cash-m.-re Kills trams? That children possea-*l'-g iv.-houl tickets should not be per- ; p:itt".: to use thorn on the express leav- j V 'K the Square at 5.5 p.m. is a groat "icoiuoiiifiu-c and injustice to those who patronimc this line. Moreover, is - , '<-' - any reason why the Cashmere Hills <-spress should be singled out for this restriction? If tho reason is that business men returning from town have to stand up for twenty minutes of the day, could not the Tramway Board, whose main tilijeet should be to cater for the public, attach a trailer to this tram ?—Yours, etc". SCHOOLGIHL. Jreptvmber 25th, 1929. HEALTH AND THE SUN. TO THE EDITOR OT TH» ?KBSB Sir, —I have read the correspondence on the subject of heliotherapy with much interest. The sun's rays are evidently of use in curing certain diseases. Will they not then help to prevent the development of these dis.ases? During tiie recent beautiful sunshiny weather I have been thinking about all the umall children that are shut up all day long in our infant schools. Surely this vaunot be right. May I quote the following from a tetter written by Miss M. McMillan, the founder of the OpenAir Nursery Schooi, to the editor of the London ''Morning Post": "The ordinary infant school has been changed in the past twenty years, but it is still quite unsuited to the needs of small children—not because it forces the functions of the brain, but because it is an artificial and unsuitable environment. Impressions, not dogmatie teaching, are the raw material of thinking. They supply the nutriment on which the infant higher brain has to depend. And the stimuli that a young human needs are provided in an environment that allows him to see the sun aud the trees, to feel the wind and the light, to move freely in wide spaces, and to be one of a large family, all living under free and natural conditions—and with enlightened guides. ... To close the infant school is no remedy. To transform it, by making it an open-air nursery school is the first genuine reform that anv Minister can attempt."—Yours, etc.,

THOUGHTFUL. ' Soptember 25th, 1929. WOMEN POLICE. TO THE EDITOB OF THE PRE3S. Sir, —There is one aspect of this question that I never see brought forward. How is it that men in New Zealand do not see that women police would often bo a very real protection, not only to women and girls, but to themselves! Over and over again I have heard of men accused of various offences against girls and women, some of whom, in the light of later events, have been found to be far from what they should be. Not every girl or woman, I am sorry to say, in New Zealand, is to be believed; but women (it is common knowledge) can sift their own sei infinitely better than men. We need women police in New Zealand, Sir, for the protection of our sons as well as our daughters, and I agree with your correspondent, Miss Jessie Mackay, that we are all behind the times in not having them. I believe that ours is the only country in the Empire that has none. Can some reader tell me if this is so?— Yours, etc.,

INTERESTED. September 25th, 1929. MORTALITY AMONG LAMBS. TO r2K KDITOB OF TBB FUSS Sir.—l see by a report in The Fbebh that the death-rate amongst young lambs in Otago is again bad this spring, and that no sure remedy is yet found. I have been watching your correspondence columns for someone offering some advice on the best remedy against the losses. There should be plenty of experienced sheepmen that could give some useful advice that may be worth trying, and it is on the chance of drawing others that I am writing, more than offering an opinion as to the best cure.

; There is no doubt to me that the cause is the spring grass, because it is only lambs born before the spring grass cornea that die. Late lambs never die. Therefore the surest way to avoid losses would be not to go in for early lambs unless plenty of green feed i» put in for the lambing. However, sometimes even «ome late lambs will die (I mean when the lambing starts, s.'iv. the second week in September) because the ewes may have had a hard winter and the spring is late; bo that when the flush of gra3s comes some of the firstborn will die. What I have found to be the best cure for that is to give the ewes less feed for eight or ten days by closing up one paddock (or block, if tussock land) and putting the sheep off it on to where the rest of the ewes are at the rate of about one half more stock per paddock. That may not effect a cure at once, but will after a few days, and after the eight or ten- days' time the ewes can have the other paddock that has been spelled without danger. My experience has all been with hill country, and may not act so well on grass paddocks, but it costs nothing to try, and will do no harm. Hoping" that others with experience will come to light, as a sure cure for the losses in young lambs means a lot to the country.—Yours, etc. CORRIEDALE. September 25th, 1929.