POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22436, 24 June 1938, Page 6

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“L.C.M.,” referring to an article in “The Press” in which a schoolboy described the shooting of his first stag and his using six bullets to bring the animal down, says: “In my opinion that boy should be presented from using a rifle until he has learnt to handle it properly and to shoot straight.” The writer also suggests that the matter should be taken up by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

L George White, although cricket does not appeal to him. pays a tribute to , Don Bradman, who, he suggests, stands in the same relation to Grace, Trumper, Hobbs, Hammond, and McCabe as Shakespeare did to Chaucer, Marlowe, and other English poets. Hiram Hunter, on the subject of “Maori Welfare” pays a tribute to Hilda M. Traill, who he says ‘“is evidently a woman with an understanding mind, a keen perception, courage, and the gift of expression. If we had more like her there would not be so many promises in the pie-crust category." “Honour First” complains of eavesdropping on party telephone lines. “While extreme caution should undoubtedly be exercised when speaking on a party line,” says the correspondent, “the practice of ‘listening-in’ and passing on—accurately or otherwise—the information gleaned is an act as mean and unprincipled as stealing from a blind man.” “Bolshie” asks: “Why all this fuss about tramway affairs? The community failed to profit by Dr. W. A. Chappie’s (N.Z.) book .of 30 (?) years ago—- “ The Fertility of the Unfit,” and now it is too late. We—the wastrels, the in-

competent, the thriftless —have the voting power in our own hands; so let’s clamour for everything to be free (for us) and in the classic phrase of a quondam Mayor—‘D the ratepayers.’ ”