CELEBRATION OF PEACE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24571, 21 May 1945, Page 6

CELEBRATION OF PEACE

Sir,—The Motor Unions are asking for an increased , petrol ration as toe British motorist is how to get pejxoi for non-essential purposes. < Britain s food rations will probably hkve to he cut, and there is a.strong opinion that they should be, so, that food can be released fdr the Contmenfc The gesture-of the women’s organisations in sending tinned food to admirable, feut is the gesture not rattier naive? Luxury eating, wheat import ation, and the shops full of tinned goods as before. This geshire costs nothing except the price of the tin. The laissez-faire attitude towards further rationing here is most contemptible. It took the motor unions, only three days to state their claim tpr more petrol. Truly, self-interest m New Zealand is well regimented.— You gwendoline S. L. JELLETT. May 19. 1945.

THE ARCHBISHOP’S QUESTIONS Sir,—We, the United Nations, have been given the victory because right was might. I cannot accept that any nation or individual is ch .9 s ® n has put into operation the laws or GQd God has used Russia m.this conflict. Her communism is practoal Christianity. When nations or persons realise that they « re • nMnl keeper they are obeying the Divine Law. Then thev are given a U P o ™!£' That is whv we have won this war. There is no need to be a student of the Bible to conceive the P°werof God. Our lives should be a living Bible-Yours, etc.. H. SHAW. May 16. 1945.