AIR GUY TO JUSTOOLATE."

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 8

AIR GUY TO JUSTOOLATE."

(To the Editoii-T Star) Sir. —“J us-toolatc” writes 1i K o a man vith an axe to grind, who thinks ho has fennel a good subslantical grindstone. His main, trouble this time scorns \ r ho the ‘''why’ of the petition now in circulation. But he should already know, if lie gives your pages the attention to which they are entitled; that the petition is the result of agitation on the part of a number of consumers, who have now set- up a committee to carry it through. I have given the committee some assistance, because, as \ have stated before, I consider that the consumers of this area arc placed under unfair conditions n.nd ere entitled to the best 1 can do for them, if not to eliminate those conditions, at 'least to. attempt to improve them. A 1 or cover, seeing tin at ihe Power Hoard estimates to make a saving* of from £ISOO to £2OOO per annum through the pilot wires and clock systems now being installed, a reduction in prices should not be> out of the quest ion. The paving in. Foil-d----ing alone would be sufficient in one year, if the present prices continue. Then, are not tjhe consumers entitled to have the difference passed ori to them? 111 view of these facts, 1 consider that a. rcductioin in ju ice should he well within, tile hounds of a possibility, oven, under the present (a rm o f admin ist ration. The question is: What is the quickest arid most effective way of securing it? So much for why the petition, is in circulation. I might add that as far. a.« 5 T can, ascertain the committee have up to the present something like 500 signatures of consumers on the petition. Mr •* Just oblate” appears to- he one out of lour or five persons so far who have refused iOl sign it. However, I have no wish to add to his many troubles and perhaps it will he some consolation to him to know that no one wishes him to sign, a, petition for something that he does not want. I do not think Ids letter rails for anything further in the. nature of l a reply. But if he 1s" n, genuine seeker of* information, he should not he ashamed to use the name his parents gave'him; and in future T intend neither to. waste your space nor my t ime on” any further correspondence written over a rj on-de-plume.-- T am, etc., V. G. GUY.