LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24591, 13 June 1945, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Waste Not Want Not.—You .should write to the journal in which tEe paragraph appeared. . „ Put 'Em Out.—Letter far exceeds space limit of 150 words. IMMIGRATION Sir,-New Zealand is just as much in need of a larger population as Australia; yet over there they have already formed an all-party committee to plan increasing it by immigration, whereas here we have done precisely nothing. It is about time wewoke up. This country is only half developed, and badly needs a larger Slat on to exploit fully and economically its available and potential resources. Also, many of our economic problems would be solved•automata cally. We would depend to a leaser extent on overseas markets for our primary products; our secondary industries would beneflt from production on a larger scale; and the P/eseni tendency for land to go out of production through erosion and infestation by noxious weeds would inevitably be arrested. Last, but not least, we would be in a far better condition to defend ourselves against aggression than we were in 1941.—Yours etc., BALANCED ECONOMY. June 11, 1945. ACCOMMODATION FOR SERVICEMEN Sir,—l noticed in your issue of June 5 a report on the work of the Union Jack Club. It slated that 130 servicemen were turned away between Thursday evening and Sunday evening because of lack of accommodation. If this is so, why do not the authorities send these boys out to private homes? My mother has three empty beds and could put up three lads for the week-end; and she has given both the Welcome Club and the Union Jack Club her address, requesting them to send lads out to her if they have any they cannot accommodate; but none arrives. Is it that the Union Jack Club doesn't trouble, or is it the fault of the lads, who do not wish to go -but of town" a WWmrtfa June 8, 1945. [When this letter was referred to Mr T W. Smith, secretary of the Union Jack' Club, he said that it was very difficult to get men to go out to private addresses. The 130 men referred to in the report applied at the club for accommodation between midnight and 1.30 a.m. It was considered that the hour was too late to send the men out to private residences. Mr P. Sherlock, secretary of the Welcome Club, states that the club, by keeping in contact with all available sources of accommodation other than private homes, endeavours to satisfy all requests made by servicemen for accommodation.]