OUR SAILOR VISITORS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 14

OUR SAILOR VISITORS

to th's editoh. or inis rcEsg. Sir, —T do not know what arrangements have been made for the men on the Canberra, but I was in town yesterday afternoon, and so many of them were wandering about in the pouring rain, nothing to do or to go to. I am sure that if an appeal were made, people would take them into their homes (those who still live in homes, and have fires, so many now are in rooms, etc.), and give them a cup of tea. Also could not all the picture shows allow the men in free for the few days they are here? But

it is homes these men want more than anything, however simple and humble. —Yours, etc., ANXIOUS. September 14, 1933. THE APOTHEOSIS OF WOMAN 10 TH? EDITOR OF TBI*. VP.ZS3. Sir, —If there is a more exuberantly happy man in Christchurch today than I am I would like to meet him; and in that case the citizens would see the most radiantly exulted man in the world. The secret of this perfect bliss is to be found in the result of the Lyttelton by-election. For those with vision, like me, that result denotes the greatest step ever taken by New Zealand in the emancipation of woman from those futile old traditions that kept her in subjection and submission, while, lacking her wise counsel and her inspired guidance the world plunged deeper and deeper in the mire under the direction of those insufferable egotists, the men, who have brought us all to the present pass. __ As a detached incident Mrs McCombs's return does not signify much. As a portent of the opening of a more glorious era it signifies a tremendous revolution. But let us remember that Mrs McCombs has only begun the new order. ! At next election I look *°™ard to • seeing a woman candidate for every ; seat and to see most of them returned Then men, the messers, will be put in ' their proper place. —Yours, etc., I NINO DI SOMMA. ' September 14, 1933.