Letters in Brief

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 13

Letters in Brief

“Fair Play” complains that in the ranks of labour employed at certain freezing works are men who have other sources of earning a living, such as dairy farms and boarding-houses. The reply of these men when approached on the subject is that the boarding-house or farm belongs to the wife. “I think,” adds the correspondent, “it is only fair that while this great depression, lasts men with other sources of getting a living should be content with one income, thus making room for others whose wives have not got farms or boarding-houses, but have families of little children to keep, with very little to keep them on. The heads of the works or the Alliance of Labour could take this matter up with advantage to the unemployed.”

“The Hon. S. G. Smith speaks for himself only when he remarks that the payment of 30/- for unemployment relief is a mere bagatelle,” writes “One of the 14-Bobbers.” “This is all very well for those with, four or five hundred a year coming in, but,” adds the correspondent, “how about' those who all through the country are on 14/- per day, providing the weather is fine? Does Mr. .Smith imagine tfiey have any three ‘ten bobs’, to throw away? If he does I would most humbly advise him to try a course of 14/- per day, in the winter, with a wife and children to keep, and. see how he likes it." . * « «

■ Commenting on what he terms the failure of the Wellington City Council milk department to expand the sales of Rahui butter, Mr. C. Gough, secretary of the Wellington Creameries,’ Cheese and Butter Factories’ Union, states that the department disposes of only two 561 b. boxes of patted butter per day to its customers, while 30 to 40 561 b. boxes of bulk blitter are sold eaeh week to a private concern at wholesale rates and approximately 160 561 b. boxes of bulk butter each week exported. Should not the milk department sell every pound possible direct to the public and reap the profits, instead of enriching a private trading concern? the correspondent asks, adding the further question—Why are the 160 boxes exported when the butter could be sold to the public of Wellington at retail prices and freights, storage and insurance costs saved? The correspondent points out that the milk department has its own system of distribution per medium of the milk roundsman and that the butter could be distributed on the coupon system as with milk andcream,