LETTERS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 53, 31 August 1925, Page 6

LETTERS IN BRIEF

"A Flat" suggests that the City Council should erect blocks of flats in Adelaide road for working men and women who must bo nearer to their work than Wilton's Bush. .

"Rolleston Street" writes as a mother complaining of theft of milk tokens, winch, apart from the loss, compels mothers to go out with little children to buy milk.

A Miner" replies to remarks made by Councillor Semple when discussing the Northland Tunnel. "Mr. Semple says: | Anyone who knows anything about mining and tunnelling knows that the second movement of the ground does not take place till the timber rots.' What timber does he refer to? There is no timber left over the lining in any tunnel. And in any tunnel concrete-lined, there is every precaution taken that there is no movement at all, let alone a second movement as Mr. Semple affirms." Tho correspondent , refers also to a speech made by Mr. Holland, in reply to Sir James Parr, and asserts that Mr. Holland overlooked the refusal to supply coal for the cruisers which were going out after llio raiders. "Possibly the Labour Party had nothing to do w;th that refusal. When tho request was made by our late Premier, and the member for Buller, the late Mr. Colvin, a direct refusal was given, un{il some of the miners formed a patriotic union, and pledged themselves to get coal for the cruisers if they had to fight their way into the mine to get it." "X-Eay" protests against the admission of Chinese and Indians of the coolie class to New Zealand, and states that there is need for giving British preference a local application, particularly 1 in the fruit and vegetable trade. He urges, moreover, that these people should be excluded, as Australia has done, or New; Zealand will be confronted with a problem similar to that now confronting South Africa.

"V.C." comments upon the report of five British medical M.P.'s who recently went to Geneva to investigate the Spahlinger serum treatment for tuberculosis. The correspondent considers that Mr. Spahlinger, in view of his humanitarian . motive and sacrifice, which the M.P.'s themselves acknowledged, deserved better treatment, and lie asks what qualifications the investigators possessed that they should judge the work of a man who has given his fortune to discover aid for humanity, and has refused great offers rather than 'commercialise his discoveries.

"All British." refers to the reported criticism by Mr. Vosseler (when addressing the Trades and Labour Council) of tha competence of the Government officer* who judged the merits of gramophones for use m schools. The correspondent asks what experience Mr. Vosseler himself has had to justify his reflections on the experts. "The makers of tho gramophones selected have been pioneers in the industry ever since the invention was commercialised. Their goods are of world-wide repute, and the industry is one of very considerable importance in England, employing many thousands ot Britishers for the production of an allBritish article."