CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

ECONOMY IN ELECTRICITY

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Is it reasonable to expect the public to take seriously the request to economise in the use of electricity when the City Council, shortly after the appeal was issued, sent a doubledecker tramcar all over the city for advertising purposes, blazing with lamps enough to light a dozen houses? —I am, etc..

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WAR EFFORTS

William Morgan contrasts the messages from Cairo that the Germans are still landing troops in Crete and that tlie situation is serious, and the publication of long casualty and missing lists, with the report from Greymouth that three State coal mines closed all day. Also the death of a Wellington doctor killed when a hospital was blown up killing and wounding many people with the hints of the Minister of Health at legislation to force the will of the'majority upon the minority in the B.M.A. "The Acting Prime Minister states," writes the correspondent, "that today not 5 per cent, of the people ot New Zealand realise what is at stake in the present war. Does he think that the people of New Zealand will realise ihe position, if the Government is unable to control the unions and persists in fighting the B.M.A. when some of its members, along with our New Zealand sons, are meeting death that we may live? Have we not a leader who will take the bit in his teeth and lead the vast majority of New Zealanders. including nine-tenths of the men and women in every trade union in the country, as the vast majority of us are eager to be led?"

"Another Mother .of a Soldier" writes in support of the correspondent's letter in Thursday's "Post." The correspondent refers to Mr. Nash's stirring appeal to the New Zealand people to realise that a war is being waged, and contrasts this with the published report that a coal mine had been idle for a day "because there was no train to bring wet-time men to their destinations when they completed their shifts." What has Mr. Webb to say, asks the correspondent, who also warmly supports the appeal of the writer in "The Post" for 'some recognition from the Government for the services rendered by the doctors.

"Puzzled" comments on the fact that our soldiers are fighting day and night "to the point of exhaustion" in Crete, and we in New Zealand propose to hold another holiday, which will mean a four-day working week. "Is not this an inspiring all-in war effort?" asks the correspondent.