POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23971, 11 June 1943, Page 6

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

"Taxpayer" writes: "By all means increase the pensions of the widow burdened with young children and also the 1914-18 veterans, but why make 'a lady' of the young widow by giving her £3 a week for life and the right to double, or even treble this amount, as many are doing? What of the war widow who married within a few weeks of her soldier-husband's departure? Is she less able to be usefully employed?" "Retired Farmer" says that in England, where he helped to rear "hundreds of head of game" hedgehogs are not on the list of vermin. In New Zealand "we kept chickens, ducks, etc., and, knowing them to do good, we kept hedgehogs in the garden." On inflation, "Crystal Clear" writes: "If Reserve Bank credit creation leads to 'inflation' so must credit creation, by any other bank. It is all 'new money.' All bank overdrafts are similarly inflationary ... If all credit creation is inflationary, then why should not the people's Reserve Bank do 'all' the credit creation . . . and save us the interest payments (profit) to private banks?" On the same subject "Not Amused" suggests that the idea that "there is too much money about . . . gets a rude shock "when life insurance figures are considered." "The latest Year Book tables show that of 19.565 policies discontinued, only 6125 were normal death and maturity policies, whereas those surrendered or lapsed, etc., were 13,440 —more than double! Even worse, the respective amounts of the above were 26.51 per cent, as against 73.49 per cent. Policies lapse or are surrendered only when people are hard up, and on this showing, only about one-third of discontinued policies ended normally. The inflation bogy has here a poser to answer." On "Deershooting accidents" "R" contends that when "Sportsman" was nearly shot he should have fired a shot into the air immediately the first shot was fired at him, instead of lying down and crawling away. The writer suggests that when carrying skins or horns a piece of white cloth should be attached and at rest times a handkerchief over the head or shoulder is a wise precaution. J. R. Telford commends "Sportsman's" letter and reports that last

tions, and it is amazing that someone was not hit." The writer directsi an» tion to the danger of losses of sw» through the activities of deer shoote* "Ratepayer" condemns the policy of the North Hospital Board as one of "makeshift over the last 20 years. "The Christehuren Public Hospital, for the money spew must be the most obsolete in theiworw. Amid ideal surroundings it is an eye sore in architecture and useless J" many ways, full of nooks and corners, full of old junk of every description. "Half Measure" supports the Bapt# Union in its censure of the liquor traoe. "The time has arrived when everyww. should be concerned," writes «»" Measure," who suggests that Ji<l"°£ like other commodities, should v> rationed and "coupons should only to men over the age of 21 »> women over 25." "Excelsior." on the population problem, writes: "If the Government wanw to stop the destruction of unwanttj babies it can do so by providing »» them the most up-to-date homes ana care as England did for the Belgia» war babies."