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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 6

; for the duration of the war. The reply was that it was not required and the writer could consider that he was free to offer his services to any branch of the Services. i Much has been said of the visit of Departmental officers to Australia. What has been the outcome? Is it not common sense to entrust this work to the creative and productive man, handling complex engineering problems every day? New Zealand craftsmen are more versatile than those of other countries. This is clearly shown by the number of New Zealanders who leave New Zealand as ordinary workmen and immediately step into responsible positions as soon as they arrive in other countries, including Australia. Why not credit our craftsmen with intelligence and give them a "fair go"? Why not say to the creative and productive engineers in this country, "this is what we want, thousands of them, in the shortest possible time. Go to it"?—lt am, etc., WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In attempting to belittle Mr. Burn in the controversy over munition manufacture, Mr. Sullivan has helped neither the public morale nor the country's endeavours to produce needed means of defence. Claiming to be representative of the majority of New Zealand citizens, i.e., the taxpayer, I wish to protest against the personal angle which has been shown by a Minister of the Crown towards a public-spirited man of high qualifications, who, by his educative Press articles, has brought our administrative body out into the open, by his clear and lucid questions. Mr. Sullivan's reference that the firm best able to do it would get the work must surely have inferred that Mr. Burn was after the job, an insinuation which to my mind differentiates between the statesman and the politician. Mr.1 Burn's experience in the designing, manufacture, and manipulation of the very things which are in consideration stands unique in New Zealand today, which consideration prompts me, as it must influence many others, to accept his judgment and public contentions. In conclusion, I would say that Mr. Burn has done the job, and would advise Mr. Sullivan this way: "Let not he who putteth on his armour boast as he who taketh it off." Offering Mr. Burn my sympathy for the rebuff and rebuke with which his laudable efforts have been rewarded.— I am, etc., JOINER.