POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 10

POINTS FROM LETTERS

'-Interested" ;,writes:7r''A most interesting: development-.has;-; we hear, taken place.at a suburban .'school, where a cow has fbeen presented; tdjjth'e school so as to;-provide;;a;constant supply of fresh milk- fr'ee^-a great booh these hard times. Suck a. .worthy,,.esample._ might well be followed elsewhere; perhaps some private person having the welfare of the children at heart might donate one and even allow a 'school the use; of adjacent- land for- pasturage if it has none available. ..This seems'a far better id«RJ'in any case;'than ■buying milk, as, has ,W,vbe v done at, present, meaning constant expenditure, which having the use'of a cow, whether bought or donated, would at once put a stop to."

"Create' Work"-puts in a. plea- for-ac-celeration of the Tawa Flat deviation, not only on the ground that the work itself means more labour" (tunnellers, electrifiers, carpenters, rail-layers, etc.) and a saving m railway working costs, but because the deviated and improved railway will stimulate suburban settlement (building, draining, etc.) and will create a greater travelling public for the railways, attracting those people who will not patronise smoky carriages on the present badly graded line.-

"Disabled" suggests a slightly altered compass-course for Government economy to follow: "Are there not thousands of others, in the Public Service, •whom they ■•■ n have a dig at,' without- interfering with-the disabled men?" ' 'He adds the proviso that the disabled man should, o£ course, be able to do his work, and he claims that the disabled; man has proved quite efficient as letter-carrier^, letter sorter,-' messenger, liftman, and storeman. In suitable jobs disabled men should'have preference—as in Mr. Massey'a time—and the 'R.S.A. should put that to the Government. "Disabled" admits that some kind of Public Service economy is needed, and1 that the R.S.A. is putting up a good fight ior its men. . t v '

V A. Xeary writes:—"l "must compliment "The Post" on its very able defence of law and order, 'in - its leader entitled 'Abusing the Bench.' I use the word 'able' advisedly, because it is really appropriate to the manner in which "The Post* lias delivered its article. Mr. A. Cooke is'recorded'as having used very temperate language, which meets with the approval of your paper. Not so Mr. J. Roberts, with whom you couple Mr. Lang's" name, because he (Mr. Roberts) 'had on previous occasions showed an admiration for the models established in New South Wales by Mr. Lang, which Mr. H. E. Holland has found it prudent neither to approve nor to repudiate.' Neither Mr. Lang nor Mr. Holland had anything whatever to do with the recent deputation, but they are artfully brought in by 'The Post' for purposes "of comparison. Well, as the subject of your article is law and order might I respectfully suggest that Mr. Roberta's admiration for Mr. Lang may have, been due to the fact that during the latter's'administration not one riot took place in Nsw South Wales—truly a great example of law and order, as compared with the previous Bavin-Stevens Government, which had the timber workers' riot, and the Rothburg riot. Certainly during the Lang regime there was the New Guard attempts to overthrow constitutional Government (because it cannot be denied that whether popular, -or, ; otherwise the* Lang Gpvernment^wasJeJected-;aldngrconstitut-iqnal Unes)^Tahd%yet,:jcpmpare;ithe sentences: meted out to those' making strongly seditious; speeches against: the.- Lang Goyernmenfr^i^thy R*ecehfc -S sentences *P r yenjln;New.',Zeaand;;%Mi. r Campbell and Mr. De Grootarefineda^ouple of pounds for absolutely illegal actions and speeches, yet both are against ■ the Government elected' by "the" people:" "'The " Post' 'suggests that under ordinary conditions the smashing of/a window may not be a serious matter,' etc., arid I suggest'that for an individual to make a» showy of ''opening Sydney Bridge in ordinary times is not a serious matter: either, but when it is done as Mr. De Groot attempted, then it is time for. the respectable law-abiding Press to denounce instead of applauding it. Regarding the exception you-take of Mr. Walsh's charges of class-bias, you consider it a shocking charge to make, but 1 1 wish to remind you that your article deals with law and order. Well you cannot deal with law and order without dciling in legal phrases, and I-find on leading the report of the deputation that Mr. Walsh found definite evidence of what lie states. Even the Magistrate and Judges whose, sentences are being criticised; merely form, opinions on 'the evidence (very often circumstantial) before them, and that .apparently is all Mr."Roberts and Mr. Walsh 'have done."

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