“CHEERIO!”

Evening Star, Issue 17928, 25 March 1922, Page 10

“CHEERIO!”

SO TELE EDITOR.

Sir*—‘The paragraph regarding the shipping and tho unemployed vratorsiders in last night’s paper was somewhat ci a shock after having read in your Tuesday night's issue tho article on hh.ppin(®9 by a great eurgeon. One does not twj paragraphs of tho kind alluded to in tho Pl-sss of tho North. They never say much, if anything, about unemployment, although it is quite 6a aftuto «9 it fa

hero, nor do they make dismal reports of tho weather, although it rains 'harder and of toner. than it docs in the South. Ho garding the shipping at Lyttelton lately, I have looked through tho Canterbury paners for the last week or two, and I can find no sign of any cxtraordiiwury business. Most of the vessels that havf frequented the port are of the smallcji type of coasting vessels which also this port, and of tho oversea vessels, thofifi for tho most part have been in Dunedin or Port Chalmers quite recently. They, have, of course, tho Maori and Wahinp alternately, but these are more in tho same category as the railway trains. I noticed that "the Waikouaiti was delayed) seven days in Lyttelton, which would Ira possibly owing to the usual want of rail* way trucks. That is where wo have a decided advantage. Ships from overset® often arrive here with 900 to 1,000 tons, and are discharged and away iwxb day, duo to tho better facilities hero for d»t charging into one side of a shod! ana loading from tho shed into carte or lorries, In any case wo cannot expect to have the fame 'amount of .shipping as Lyttelton, for wc have not tho same amount of close settlement behind the port. Why, there* fore, worry? Lot us rather make up our minds to work and increase the settlement of the country lands, and thus help make things better, and let those wM have increased their prices for conunodL ties 100 per cent, during the war reduce them, ns tho grocers and others are doing, and bring down the coat of living, when unemployment will cea-fC, To this end ate the Government eliould be moved to abolish all restrict ions now in force, and especially tho Board of Trade.—l am, etc,, Horainrtii March 24.