LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Disguested All.—Largely irrelevant. E. M. Lacey.—We have no space for a discussion of chiropractors.-Citizen-Scholar.—"Might have” is hardly evidence. F. H. Read.—Your theory that Hoon Hay is the source of Dunedin’s infection is surely far-fetched. There have been reports recently

of much closer water pollution. Trouble.—Should not art be above politics and ideologies? Your suggestion, though well-inten-tioned, is in principle no different from the banning of Bach and

Beethoven in war-time. Fred T. Miles. —The “impression” is conveyed not so much by our article as by. the report of the committee, which said that the record of Parliamentary debates gave no clue to the reason for the prohibition, j'' Disgusted Kiwi.—A little more time spent in reading the paper and a little less spent in scribbling offensive remarks would probably have discovered the item for you: city editions, July 18; country editions, July 19. A.F.P.—You are still in error. Both wage-earners and self-employed immediately began payment of the social security charge on Its Introduction on April 1, 1939. Section 120 (1) of the Social Security Act. 1938, said: . . the first such instalment being due on May I, 1939, in respect of income derived for the financial year ending March 31 immediately preceding.”]