POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23415, 23 August 1941, Page 5

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

K. R. Preston, referring to the two returned soldiers at the Grand National meeting mentioned by Sympathiser,” suggests that a few friendly words, followed by afternoon tea. and perhaps a taxi home, if dividends permitted, would have provided a practical solution.”

"Grateful Residents” of Mackenzie avenue express thanks to Mr Cox for his kindness to them during the flood. "Trot," on petrol restrictions, says that the worst case of petrol wastage the writer has encountered is a proposed trip from Christchurch to Kgikoura and from Blenheim to Kaikoura by bus, of lodge members, to attend a meeting at Kaikoura.

H W McGregor Farrow writes that the" public would not grudge broadcasting fees if they had a reasonably decent service.” Reception at Hanmer, the writer describes as atrocious”

“Air Force Recruit", thinks that JP ro ; vision should be made for a New Zealand Air Force to co-operate with the New Zealand Expeditionary - Force. “Nazi airmen,” he writes, shopld never again be allowed to bully our soldiers. And the best way of stopping them would be to have fighter squadrons, dive-bomber squadrons,, and medium and long range bomber squadrons flown by New Zealanders, who are as good as any m the world.

: "Frozen Out” agrees with the complaint about cold wards at Sunnys(de Mental Hospital. “They certainly ha\ e lovely fires in the-day rooms, writes ""Frozen Out,”, "but the Wards are ’icebergs for visitors,”

"Genuine” complains that members of the basketball team at Lincoln "commandeered the Patriotic Committee’s Saturday night to run a so cud to finance the team on a trip to Rotorua to play basketball, and _ a beetle party, .the returns from which (in tne writer’s opinion) should have gone to war work."

“A.8.” asks for a prescription for ridding a house, of “book lice. (Replies cannot be printed but will _be forwarded to the correspondent—Ed. ‘The Press.”)