POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 15

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“A Friend of Our Splendid Young New Zealanders” advocates as a centennial memorial effort by the churches the establishment of residential clubs for young men and young women on small wages. “There are to-day,” writes the correspondent, “many'young persons earning comparatively smau wages as yet, who, having no home in Christchurch, are living In one room, often very far from warm and homelike. with no meals except such as are taken out or can be cooked on a gas ring. During the week-ends they nave ven r little to make for companionship and comfort.” “Normal, cheerful home conditions,” adds the writer, “are the foundation of normal, cheerful, useful lives. Here is a wonderful opportunity for all our churches to combine and do this very human and therefore truly Christian bit of work,’?

"Is this Russia or God’s Own Country" asks when and how it became necessary to form a nurses’ union and comments, “Surely .it is a. sacrilege to have a union lor the care of the sick and dying.” "Is- the noblest profession in the world to be dragged to the level of a navvies’ union?". asks the correspondent. "In the true sense of the word nurses are navvies at times, and this position can never be wholly eradicated. Nurses are very, very proud to be able to follow the example of their venerated Florence Nightingale. The nurse who grumbles and is not satisfied with her duties in the present era would be well advised to seek a vocation not demanding every selfsacrifice. The same young, woman could then join some union as it-'will not hurt her feelings to see the noblest and most necessary profession degraded to the depths of unionism."

Referring to a recent incident in the Supreme Court in Christchurch when the Court adjourned to “warm its hands.” J. A. BirtwMstle extends sympathy to the judges and counsel who have to endure such conditions, hut

asks for sympathy also for women and girls in factories working under worse conditions and for men who work in the open, handling cold steel and picks and shovels covered with frost

"Good Feeling” criticises “The Press” for publishing the statement that the victim of an accident was an "age beneficiarv under the Social Security Act."

W. Berryman, answering “Ex-Terri-torial." says that In the days of compulsory military training useful young men qf the time, lor refusing to he-

come soldiers, were confined "in durance vile” under military supervision on Ripa Island.

"X.Y.Z." asks What action the Citizens' Association is taking regarding the increase in city rates. "So far.” writes the correspondent, "there has not been any comment by that body. Has the Citizens’ Association joined the Federation of Labour or has it reached the stage when 'the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest’? It seems so.” "Stunned Ratepayer,” on the same subject, produces figures to show that

rates levied by the City Council and other local bodies in Christchurch have Increased in two years by £96,940.

in reply to J. Towne, say* that if J. Tpwne is interested the writer will send the instructions as detailed by Hoyle in the “Official Rules of Card Games.” This edition is up-to-date and fully explains how to play auction euchre, which is for five,, six, seven, or eight hands; Buck euchre, for four, five, or six players; and Call-ace _ euchre for four, five, or six, four being the best camber for J,.