LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24367, 20 September 1944, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dairy Farmer. —Personal attack over nom de plume disallowed. A CARTING LICENCE Sir,—Messrs Langford and Phelan’s remarks on transport and rehabilitation are very irritating to a who expect returned men to suffer trie consequences of this narrow-minded policy. Is not Mr Thornley, appeUant in the Hawarden case, entitled to a general goods licence? _ Is he to be privileged only to eat lime for a living after three years’ service in the desert? Past operators gave service to freezing works, shows, and Addington, and included service from the city to Mason’s Flat, whereas the present service is purely local. The No. 3 Au* thority’s contention that Mr Thornley s rehabilitation was the main reason for the support accorded his application is poor propaganda. We .may be a rustic population, but our intelligence has not suffered, thanks to our dmgene, well Hawarden, September 18,. 1944. Sir,—A digger with three years’ Middle East service asks, not for financial assistance, but the chance to repatriate himself if given a general goods licence to operate a truck. There used to be three licences here and we had service. The licensing authority was handed a petition signed by over 90 per cent, of the farmers of the district, saying there was ample work for another carrier. Decision was reserved, and the soldier was told to get the signatures of farmers saying what work they would offer. He got approximately 100 per cent, support and most of the work. All he has been given is permission to cart what lime and manure he contracts to sow. nothing more. He must starve.—Yours, etc 1914 DIGGER. Hawarden, September 18, 1944. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE Sir,—When the neace conference is held every measure should be taken to ensure that there shall not be a repetition of such a proceeding as an attack on constitutional government, as was made in Paris by Hitler and Mussolini and Germany, They deliberately left the League of Nations to make unprovoked attacks on members of an organisation formed to preserve international peace, and this fact should never be forgotten when peace terms are formulated. —Yours, etc., HENRY BETTS. Reefton, September 16, 1944. DUST BINS Sir, —I believe there is a by-law directing householders to place their dust bins inside their gates for emptying. Could it not go further and direct the City Council’s men to replace the bins inside and to shut the gates? We elderly women without maids or men folk have to go out'in all weathers and bring in the bins from the footpath, place them again on the trollies after collecting the lids from where they have been thrown.-r-Yours, etc., ARTHRITIS. September 19, 1944. I