POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24581, 1 June 1945, Page 7

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

"Woman Worker” complains that “ladies of leisure” delay their departure from the city till after 4.45 p.m., with the result that “many men and women who have been working all day are forced to stand for practically the whole of their Journey home. . . Men who have been on their feet all day can hardly be blamed for rushing the available seats and burying themselves in newspapers. So it is the women workers who are apt to suffer most from the selfishness of their sex.” “A Lover of Freedom” wants to know if New Zealanders are going to allow the Government to buy all the shares in the Bank of New Zealand. “Are we going to allow the Government to rob us of all our privileges? We would do well to remember that our leaders are our paid servants, not our masters,” “Deeply Interested” asks: “Would Mr Langstone answer the following question at his meeting: After the Government has forced the shareholders to sell and upset their investments and disturbed relationships with the bank and its clients, what is it that the Government expects to do which it cannot do at present, as it now controls the bank through the four directors appointed by it out of the board of six?” On censorship of film posters, “Two of To-day” write: “As two modern youth? we are not unduly shocked by the ‘voluptuous female’ as the previous correspondents appear to have been and would like to point out that paintings of females attired in much ‘scantier apnarel’ may be seen at our public art galleries. Why call attention to something that exists only in the minds of those beholders who cannot look at such a picture without instantly turning to sex.” On the same subject, "Rock-a-bye Baby” writes: “If our women are willing to go on allowing their children to absorb the poison contained in these things, they have only themselves to blame. If they want a remedy, they have it in their own hands. Before it is too late (if it is not too late let them be un and doing, and demand suitable female representation in film censorship.” , .