POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23715, 13 August 1942, Page 6

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“Honourably .Discharged” on “Soldiers’ Meals” refers to one camp in which he worked in both the men’s and officers’ messes and says that he noticed “a very marked difference.” On the same subject, “Do Something About It” writes: “Let Mr Holland go one day, to any big camps unannounced, and watch the boys wash their dinner dishes in the grease and stew (or mince), and let us know how he would like to live under those conditions.” “Equality I” writes: “It is a fact that as Mr Holland says, the privates are issued from ration store with the same food as the officers, but from that moment it ceases to be the same food. Bulk cooking, for one thing, makes a tremendous difference. Bacon is boiled instead of grilled, etc. Officers are privileged, in 4 hat they are able to supplement their already generous mess allowance from their own pockets and have this extra food bought, prepared, and cooked by their own cooks.” “Equality II” writes: “One cannot understand an intelligent man like Mr Holland believing that the food served to officers and men is the same. We who have relatives in canip know to the contrary.” “A Listener” coiqmends a sermon given by the Rev. C. Knight in St. Michael’s Church last Sunday. “He should tell his message in Cathedral square and every parent in Christchurch should be there to hear it,” writes “A Listener.” Richard I. Lamb takes exception to “The dictatorial technique adopted by the announcer charged with promoting interest in the urge To Work’.” “It appears to me,” writes the correspondent, “that this particular announcer has a misguided sense of his status and completely misjudges the public mood, thus-failing to arouse either interest or the desired sense of responsibility/’