INDIFFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 63, 17 March 1922, Page 7

INDIFFERENCE

TO THI IDITOX.

I Sir, —"Suprema a Situ," in your iwie of 14th instant, admits that ho was, until recently, one of the rnajorifcj*, and after listening to Mr. Mitchell ; explaining a few facts hu feols ashamed <Jf ■ himself. A '.pity a few thousand more cunpot bo afflicted in the same manner. The most eloquent lecturer, in a .single lecture, could only touch on a few of our shortcomings. Joining leagues may placate the minds of the majority, and by force of numbars accomplish certain objects, but we still remain that manioipally inert mass we were before. A fow minutes occasionally of independent thought—l ttgroo that it must bo painful, ot it would not be shirked by so many—given to/any community subject that <lops not offer immediate personal gain or loss, will soon pave the way for a logical diagnosis, of many of our afflictions, when each in turn will vanish as they becoirje collectively apparent. Tho problem, of progress is not solved by paying a secretary to do cur thinking, as many of our politicians and councillors roftliac tho depreciation of getting too far ahead'" of their electorates.—l am, etc., . J. MILLER. 14th March.

In view of the possibility of improvements by way of widening beinpt required at Salamanca-road, tho requeot o? the Wellington Town-planning Association [or the constv-iction of te"nnis courts on tho low-lying portion of Kelburn Park Kwerve is not to. be acceded to by the Gity Council a* the present time.