ALLEGED STREET NOISES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1922, Page 6

ALLEGED STREET NOISES

10 THB lEUOR. S?r;'—lThe subtle and camouflaged attvk c-ti the subject discussed and meetingi conducted by me at the Post Office Square daily during the lunch hour is not to go unchallenged. Your anonymous com-Epowient flouts the meetings that ha, 1--*' t«?ec held every day for the past eighteen months in Sydney during the lunch hour in Martin place, not at the ba*k ol the Sydney G.P.0., but rigH in front where there are more people/passing in a minute than pass the back .of the Wellington G.P.O. in two hours. Brisbane also at the corner ot Queen and Edward streets, scores of lunch hour meetings have been conducted, and that centre compares with say, Lambton quay and Featherston street. As a matter of fact the meetings that are now being held in front of the Sydney G.P;O.. main entrance are supported by Sydney's leading business nJen, in fact they pay all'expenses attached to snch meetings, including the salaries of the speakers, of which I was one until recently. The matter that ought to be ventilated is the row, caused by the friends of your correspondent, who go there to disturb the meeting. In any case, there are no business offices within hearing of the speakers, whereas in Sydney the leading commercial offices are closer than even ■is the back of the G.P.O. here. I can supply you, Sir. Editor, with press photographs and Press notices of lunch hour meetings in all of the Australian cities. If your correspondent is sincere he has not been outside osyWellington. In any case the meetings addressed by me are well attended by my opponents. That is what they are for, and judging by the squeal, it is because they are successful is why, "someone" says "fed-up.,"—l am, etc., E. J. PEICE, 10th October. '. '