LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33254, 18 June 1973, Page 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Lover of Beauty.—More drastic remedies than tree-planting are now needed. Puzzled.—No space here for discussion of magistrates’ sentences. Gref.—You could surely drive your car to one of (he areas reserved for ambulances, see your relative Inside the door, and then drive the car away to a parking area. Nil Desperandum.—You should keep the two items of expenditure in perspective. An increase of $1 a week in pensions costs about $l7 million a year—enough to send a Cabinet Minister and a staff of three on a thousand one-month round-the-world trips.