CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

TRAINING OF AUXILIARY WORKERS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—rThis extract taken from my report to my board of governors: "The necessary negotiations with industrial unions have taken more time than was expected . • •" has led to misconception in the public mind. The term "industrial unions" is not used in any restricted sense, %\it rather to mean industrial organisations. I regret that my somewhat loose use of terms brought confusion to many readers. — I am, etc.,

R. G. RIDLING, Director,

RONGOTAI COLLEGE AND

GOLF LINKS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—The proposal to acquire an area for a playing ground for Rongotai College and thereby ruin tha» Miramar links appears to me to be a deplorable move. The Miramar course affords the members an opportunity of physical exercise and recreation that ! men and women need more than ever, and the extinction of the Miramar Club would inflict a great hardship on its members, who, by the way, ask nothing from anybody. . , However, I am writing as a returned soldier—a nan-golfer—who wishes now to express the gratitude of diggers tothe Miramar Club, which every year gives up the use of its links to the R.S.A. for the yearly soldiers' competiThere is another phase of the question which does not appear to have been brought to public notice The, area proposed to be taken for the piaj,-, ground lies between the fortified area and the aerodrome, surely an unsuitable place for the boys to congregateAre these young fellows too weak or too tired to walk a few hundred yards to the Kilbirnie sports grounds?—l am, etc., ' -R I