LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 219, 9 June 1908, Page 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

———<>— . BOUNDARY MAPS WANTED. Sir,—Tho late Hon. R. Sodden stated that ; tho.portion of the city known as tho'Mount Cook School electorate was mor.s densely populated than any other part of tho Dominion, therefore candidates for tho School - Committee should address 1 householders on matters pertaining to education; and I think. Sir, tHat if tho Education Board, or School Committee issuo maps showing- tho Mount Cook' School boundary some thousands of householders will discover, that they are eligible to vote at tho election at the end of tho month. As there .will bo a- bitter 1 fight all should attend—l am, ctc., . . "-. ARGUS. . June 4. . ' ' , A RAILWAy COMPLAINT. Sir,—l think'that it is time that tho Railway Department showed some .consideration for tho settlers in tho district that liavc to travel by:train.' Only the'other day 'a settler's wifo, who took'a ticket from Wellington to Silverstream by the.Wairarapa train, was told to go to tho fore part of tho train. Hor parcel was placed in tho guard' 3 van. On arrival at Silverstream her parcol was dumped down alongside tho lino four' carriages away from the shelter shed. When asked,why. it was not put on tho platform, she was told that that was tho plattorm, If it had been a parcel of "golf sticks" they would havo been carried very; carofully to tho. shed. No woiulor that; Socialism is gaining ground with tho' working class.—l am,' etc.,.' ' r SETTLER. , Silverstream, Juno 4. / , AUCKLAND AND THE SEPARATOR. ' ;• Sir,—Tho j gentleman.in fa', position, to know something about tho milk- trado of Auckland," and 'raised' by you to tho status of expert, is quite evidently only a .','guesser." ! Dairymen havo had separators for years, not only in Auckland, but everywhere'else. ■ That it is necessary to have a\ separator to depreciate milk of. its cream content is, an absurd 'suggestion,' as it can bo successfully accomplished by tho mere means of rigidly adhering to tho letter of tho dairy regulations. '• Your, interviewer's belief in the legal aspect will not luild in - tho least bilj,'against the judge's dicta'''' 1 that .abstraction ;of cream coristitutes adulteration if it .lessens tho original quality of milk for sale,",-and hs . it can easily be; detected it is an bffenco punishable with the iisuaUpains and penalties in spite of your expert's gratuitous exemptions.—l" am, etc., ' .. ' HENRY BODLEY. June 3, 1908. .•' , ... •' , | A CURIOUS TRANSACTION. ■ V

* Sir,—Tlio caso of Leigh v. Strand, now being vontilatcd in our Law Court, is of special interest to the taxpayers, for does it not show the extravagance of the. Government when they j give, double the price foi; a , property/that, it S wss worth in the Open market? And then, think of it, they turn this .into -grafting land, instead of using. it for the purpose'they bought it "for. May I ask who purchased it for the Government, and how it all came about? I hope you will endeavour to let daylight in here, and make suro of this. I shall / ask the : candidate who puts up in the Govornment interest at the. coming elections what his opinion of the transaction is. Apparently a few thousands thrown away in this,-way is no object, but a few thousands for roads for the backb'iocitJ would bi sheet waste.—l am, etc., ' June 5. : ; DISGUSTED. ; ; THE NORTHERN HUTT SCHOOL.

Sir,—l was surprisod to notice, from tho report of the last meeting of the Welling--ton Education Board, that au effort is being made'to convert the school, which it is proposed to erect at- the northern end- of the Lower Hutt into a side school. At tho meeting of householders, held in' April, it was stated by tho chairman (who is a'.niomber of tho board) that it had been decided to erect ti school to accommodate 250 children on tho new site, and that , plans were being prepared for a school, when extended, which would accommodate 600. There must bo somo undercurrent at work, or wo would not now hoar of a side school. Tho general feeling in tho Hutt is that thero. must bo two fully-staffed schools, and nothing short of this will satisfy parents. The teachers may have a grievance in tho meantime, but the growth or the town and increased population will soon remedy this. It is the duty of tho board to consider tho best interests of education before tha interests of teachers. —I am, etc., QUEEN'S ROAD. Juno 5. i

THAT PALACE CAR. Sir, —May I cravc a little of your valuable space to voice what must be a grievance of about nine out of every ten ■ of every Wellingtonian whose unhappy fate it is to ride in our' beloved palace car.. Yesterday, in a short run of twenty minutes to Karori, I twice had my head badly bashed, onco on entering and again on alighting from one of these cars by the wooden bar which runs the length of tho open seats, and is used to shut off tho wrong side of the car to' prevent people getting in and out on that side. I was not tho only victim in this little jaunt, as I noticed two men with bowler hats share the samo fate as myself, as regarded theii; headgear. Now it would be highly interesting to learn tho number of "broken crowns" and tho amount of had-language which this nuisanco is responsible for in tho course of olio day. If three is tho number of casualties in twenty minutes, what is the number in tho course of a day? (This would be a good Sum to givo tho school children.) I havo ridden in tho samo class of car in other centres without any fatal result accruing, and 1, with many other sufferers, consider it high timo something was done in Wellington to either improve greatly or do away altogether with this injury-inflicting and wrath-provoking class of conveyanco. I would suggest as one way of preventing it that tho doors be closed on tho "wrong" side, as is donf op the locally-made or "Hong-Kong" car,' in placo of the lowering and raising, of tho ,bar on every trip. Certainly it might take a fraction of a minuto longer, but it is surely worth it; or, if this is impracticable, let the bar ho raised sufficiently high to clear the heads of unwary.passengers,'as is dono elsewhere. —I am, otc., " PHULLUP. Junak