(To the Editor.)

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 125, 29 May 1928, Page 8

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Kindly allow me space to reply to the two letters in "The Post"' recently. In the first place, one of the biggest appeals in this country is for "More Business in Government." Now, Sir, the Mirmar Settlement is a Government scheme; the land was acquired especially for workers' houses, and the .Departmentl is1 going about it in a business-like manner. Would your correspondents expect a private financial company to advance money on their sections in preference to the company's? I think not. Had your correspondents obtained one of these sections I am quite sure they would have been the first to, squeal had they been kept waiting more than a month or so for a loan. I may say that I have one of the sections opened up last summer, and am -quite sure that I am expressing the feelings of all rightminded people, and especially of the 150 odd families who have obtained homes in the settlement during the last few months, when I say that the officers of the State Advances. Office are <;o be very highly commended for the efficient and businesslike manner in which they are carrying out the work of sub-division. They are doing that which private enterprise, failed to do, as anyone who knows the full history of Miramar can tell. —I am, etc., h. c; hewson. 28th May.