"OVER THE ODDS"

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 8

"OVER THE ODDS"

(To the Editor.)

ag!inktLTnew^v\ylrf o f s^in PsS g^^S^nltfSS dead In my opinion it is a noS that f wd ?? b/ infficted on those in a feeble state of health, whose misforCe it is to live in houses or be in hospital within a quarter of a. mile or even half a mile of the railway. I do believe some of these will thereby be hastened "off this mortal coil," The introduction o£ thS new noise is a blunder, and it is a marvel to me that any ordinary reasonably minded man ahould have devised such a noise for such a purpose or that responsible men should tolerate its use. That fWm?^° Se i W *? defend mad *otoriss from themselves is no justification for its mstaUahon on trains. It would be better to let motorists who wish to commit B^ Cl(*£ by running into moving trains^, ro rather tfcan to take the risk of hnrW helpless sick people who arf confined to their beds and cannot get away from the nerve racking note of .f^fS trains.. Surely JgJ^ji" people have a right to consideration^ these mattery Is it fair to the sick and teeble that this new noise should be added to the excessive noises with : which modern civilisation is afflicted? What does the Public Health Department think of the new noise?—l am, etc

■d , „■,,' NEMESIS. Palmerston North, 2nd October.