DEEP IN LIBYA

Evening Star, Issue 23882, 12 May 1941, Page 11

DEEP IN LIBYA

CUR LONG-RANGE DESERT GROUP PICKED HEW ZEALANDERS (New Zealand Official News Service.) Cairo; April 4. Exceeding 50 miles an hour across a stretch of desert, a British Army truck struck an unsuspected sand ripple ana rocketed into the air, crashed o4it a'wav, anl sprcadeagled its four wheels so that the front and rear axles rested on the ground. , ■, , . As a result the New Zealand driver, short,, powerfully, built, ginger-haired, and frecked, appeared later with plaster on the side of his head. Bruised and with skin removed from various limbs, ho was more concerned with tho loss of the truck than the damage to himself.' Ho and his companions, .members of the Long Range Desert Group, were seen next day intently occupied with their trucks, tinkering hero and there with a spanner, paying particular atten-

cumstances? The social security benefits .do not provide protection against such treatment as is dealt out to its lower-paid workers by the council.—X am, etc., Interested. May 12. TO TB E EDITOR. Sir,—.Ex-councillor Siiverstone. has taken tlie mayor and Citizens’ Association to task for having claimed that they have given and will give humanitarian consideration to the needs, of the poor. . He considers the general labourers are the , lowest-paid .workers in the council’s employ. These workers are .getting, the award,.rate and a 40-hour •Week, steady employment, and better off than, hundreds of outside workers. Mr Silvorstone’s address after last elections, given ito show lidw Labour could balance tho budget ..without increasing the. rates, was Tlie most amusing farce I have listened to, and was well.received, by. the rank and ’file of the parlv. /He admitted that the ;Labour Commit had depleted the, funds, but justified its action on the score of having giveh jobs to idle workers —“ sit down, 1 presume—and, of course, it was better to pay wages than for llicin to be idle. So you can see the ratepayers will have to foot the bill if be becomes a councillor; and 1 should like to ask Mr Siiverstone -if.it is-part of a councillor’s duty to attend tramway union meetings, for advice on the tramway time-table?—T am, etc., Equilibrium. May 12. ,