POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22108, 2 June 1937, Page 7

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

"Clear Title Farmer." on the question "Small Farmers and the Labour Party," reiterates his claim that the interest bill for the farmer can be wiped out by grit and hard work. He cites a Wellington case of a farmer with first, second, and third mortgages on his property applying for relief to the Mortgage Adjustment Commission, which freed him of his responsibility and left the three mortgagees to fight it out. The correspondent asks: "Is it anv wonder good money is leaving the country for investment overseas?" "Muggins," commenting on the proposed city garbage dumps, mentions that in Wellington, where he worked in the destructor yard, household refuse is not put over the tips but is used to generate steam for the sewage pumping system. All merchants have to cart their refuse to the destructor and pay varying prices (according to the nature of the rubbish) for its destruction. The tips are used o-ly for old iron. tins. etc.. but sometimes paper is burnt in them. No offensive matter is permitted to be dumped there. Vegetable matter from the markets is sent to the masticator at Hongotai, where it is pulped and then placed in sandpits and covered with clinkers and ashes from the destructor. Stray dogs are destroyed and burnt. "Bob C." asks why we should support "the useless League of Nations." He says that the workirg of the League is the destruction of independent nations and constitutional governments. The foreign policy of Britain for the last 15 years, says the correspondent, has been one of folly; and it is still being carried on. "Overtaxed" suggests that donations to the King George V Memorial Fund should be allowed as an exemption from Income tax. "Student" asks for five Maori place names, preferably of places near Kaikoura, with their meanings. (Letters of corre-sponde-ts answering this question will be forwarded to "Student," but cannot be printed. Ed. "The Press.") "Curious" says: "While out deer-stalk-ing in the back country of the Culverden district lately, we were working In a heavily bush and scrub-covered area, where we came across a small stream. In the damp soil nearby were several neat round holes, between half and three-quarter-inch diameter, and approxifour inches deep. Being unable to account for them, we were wondering if they could have possibly been made by some bird, such as the kiwi in search for worms or grubs. Hoping that some of your readers will be able to enlighten us on