LETTERS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 22, 26 July 1920, Page 2

LETTERS IN BRIEF

A correspondent, Henry Bodley, referring to the City Council's treatment, at its last meeting, of the milk question, says there is no management, only posing. The Prime Minister, he states, is to be asked to tax the produce of the Dominion to get Wellington out of its milk difficulty. He recalls that it costs 3£d per gallon for the milk to pass through Dixon-street, and asks if ,any other example of such a price for the same work could ba shown aaywhere else? ■ :

Referring to the controversy regarding the City Organist, "Citizen Fairplay"" regrets what he calls the particularly mean attack of a City Councillor on Mr. Page. He wonders whether there are wheels within wheels in this matter, and adds : "To let the Town Hall for a, Saturday night cabaret club, or for shillings 'pops, would, no doubt, bring in quite a good sum, but what an honour it would be to the Capital City of New Zealand." Were the musical people of Wellington- going. to sit quiet and sigh "What a pity," while a councillor led the city by the nose down the slope of "money before all things?" The correspondent rejoices that tho Mayor had grii enough to defend the absent organist.

"Natation" read with pleasure the remarks of the Mayor in reference to providing tepid salt-water baths for'the city. Wellington, he states, is very much behind Christehurch and_ Auckland in this respect, and swimming sports suffer in. consequence.- He hopes the proposal will'be carried through.