Mr T. D. Lennie

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 3

Mr T. D. Lennie

Sir, —I am very sorry that to-i day’s ‘‘Practical Gardening” is Mi* Lennie’s final contribution to “Thd Pi-ess,” and I would thank hiiri for always sharing his greaf knowledge of garden lore in such a fascinating words, an<| for providing very helpful reading to a vast numbar of gardens lovers. I am sure there are hosts of his readers who join me in wishing him a very happy ment—Yours, etc.. H.M.K. * September 30. 1960.

Shortage Of Tradesmen Sir, —“Small Builder” says it costs £6 12s a week for the first year of a 16-year-old lad to learrf a trade. I would remind him a normal 16-year-old is working all the time and therefore is producing something with his labour for whatever wages he is get* ting, small or fair. An intelligent lad earns his wages almost as soon as he starts work. Hi would have us believe that at the rate of £6 12s a week he is down £3OO the first year; the boy has earned nothing. I was apprenticed to a bricklayer once and was laying bricks the second week of my apprenticeship.-*-Yours, etc., „ JAMES MOORE. September 30, 1960.