POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 12

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“Wide Awake” writes: The general public are well aware of the meaning of the numerous Facers’ Union meetings, with the frequent calls for stopping public works lobs and abolishing the 40-hour week. Why are the farmers idling time away at meetings instead of working? They and their sons are exempt from war service, while a big majority of the workers are in uniform and others are working night shift at mills to speed industry. The parrot cry of the Farmers’ Union to further war efforts is just an excuse to embarrass the Government and introduce Fascist methodsto New Zealand. ' “71” suggests that men between 60 and 75 could be used to fill temporarily the gaps in industry caused by the departure of younger men with the fighting forces. “Some of us are retired on pensions or on what we have saved,” he writes, “so that an arrangement could be made that a percentage of whatever wages are paid to us should be paid over to the lads when they return.” “Six O’Clock” welcomes the proposal of the Licensing Committee for stricter control of after,hours drinking in hotels and its condemnation of drinking by women. Mrs Agnes Williams pays tribute to Miss Lucy Co'fran and expresses appreciation of the action of the elocution teachers in arranging for a function publicly to recognise Miss Cowan s valuable work in Christchurch. “One was particularly pleased,” writes the correspondent, “to see the masculine element so well represented at the farewell conversazione, which proves that deep-thinking man does appreciate a good woman’s lone effort to uplift and unveil the beauty and latent power in the spoken word.” A tribute is paid by “J. 8.” to the traffic inspectors who rapidly dispatched to the hospital in their “safety first” car a boy injured in Lancaster street. “These men get a lot of snubs in the execution of their duties. Give praise when it is due,” he writes.