POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23002, 23 April 1940, Page 14

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

On “Letter Boxes.” “TA..S.” ■: replies to “5.L.,” “If ‘S.L.,’” he says, “thinks pushing a bicycle against a sou’-wester is nothing, let him try. it a few times. Anyone of us would lend him the oilskins, but he would haye to see the Postmaster about the mailbag. These letter-boxes are long overdue, and postmen should be instructed to deliver letters only where letter-boxes are suitably placed.” Cyril R. Rule writes: “As one who has worked on the streets for a number of years with the sale of popSies, I should like to put on record le cheerfulness with which the citizens of Christchurch.. both young and old, bought poppies this year. The way they supported this worthy appeal this yeas was very marked." “Dietitian” writes that the stunting of growth and malnutrition of many of the poorer classes result from improper feeding in youth and suggests the need for providing the poor with simple instructions on correct dietetics. “If we have the. beat interests of our country and those we love at heart the maintaining of a proper standard of diet will occupy the attention of every citizen and our newspapers can assist more than anyone,” writes the correspondent. “Indeed, the serious effects of improper diet are being more realised to-day, but with the effects of war, diet assumes even greater importance.” “R.F.E.F.” writes; “We have how the appeal for pigmeat owing to the absence of Denmark’s exports to Great Britain: it is to be,hoped that in this Dominion producers will put patriotism first.. It is the least that can be done. There should not be the slightest sheltering behind the 40-hour week, be the; person affected clerk, .tradesman, 'artisan,., apprentice,,farmer,., or; in- any

other occupation. A country or its inhabitants which does not do its best will soon be a prey to other countries which disregard air semblance of decency and the right to live in peace and Christianity.” “An Invalid” writes: “I, too, would like to express my appreciation of the crossword puzzles in “The Press” of Saturdays. . I have not yet been successful. in solving one absolutely correctly, but it is not for want of trying. They are fascinating and by far the best I have tried.” , B. E. Baughan (Akaroa) writes: “May I for one sa- how heartily I agree with your correspondent B. L. Elphick? Nobody, certainly no public servant, should be victimised by instant dismissal for expressing even Communistic views at a public meeting. lam no Communist, no Fascist, and no pacifist, but it becomes daily clearer that tree thinking, tree speech,' and free religious opinions are all being threatened in New Zealand by the very people who are exhorting us to fight for the maintenance of these human rights elsewhere. Mr Semple,. I hope, has regained his temper, and offered his own resignatic- ” : “5655 S.A.” writes: “With the 10 per cent, advance in charges on the rail, and transport regulations diverting goods to rail from road sdtvice, Mr Sullivan has not a great deal to write home about. Petrol restrictions have driven people to use the train instead of cars, and it is quote obvious that when we are 100,000 bales of wool short there would hot be the usual movement in: sheep. I ask why take 1933 to compare figures. Population has increased, length of completed railways has increased, to r say nothing of the cost of completing the railways. The Wairoa lir.. for instance (from memory) cost about £2,800,000 or £37.000 a mile. Will this extra revenue pay .'more than axle grease?”