POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22676, 3 April 1939, Page 14

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“P.F.R.” advocates the establishment of a club for pensioners, “with a small' membership fee, which would entitle pensioners (also single sustenance men. widows' and. widowers, etc.) to the use of a reading room, with concerts, radio, games, and a cup of tea or a light luncheon, on payment of a small fee.” “Curious” asks readers for information about Judge Rutherford and the originators of his teaching—who they are, what is behind the movement, and whether they are Jews. “I do not want to know what his teachings -are, and to start a religious controversysays the writer. “P.F.R.” thinks one month is too long for pensioners to wait for their remuneration and adds: “The employing of a few more clerks for helping on the weekly or fortnightly payment system would be only a drop in the ocean to a Government that spends thousands on machinery.” “A Tree Lover” agrees with “T.H.8.” in his condemnation of recent 'tree pruning in Hagley Park. “Letting the sun oh to the trunks and rooting system is very harmful to the trees, as every tree lover knows,” says the correspondent. “Housewife” urges the formation of a housewives’ union to protect nousewives against “the greedy shopkeeper.” SKe cites an instance in; which a shopkeeper delayed delivering fruit for jam-making. On her protesting she was told, “that’s rather a long way out.”