CORRESPONDENCE

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1935, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE

WHAT GREYMOUTH VISITORS MISS. (To the Editor.) Sir, —As one of the visitors to your city on Sunday’s Excursion, my first job before alighting from the train was to gather togs, etc. It is now 7 a.m. The next thing is to hang about until 9.30 and try and find a seat if you can. Station seats, however, are all occupied. May I suggest that a form he placed along side of the fence at the Government Buildings opposite the station? I am sure it would be much appreciated by many. Of course, we do not expect Greymouth to be like Sumner, with seats everywhere. Once out of your city, one is enchanted with the beauty on both sides of the road—the ocean on one side and the bush on the other—rock formation, caves, etc. and not forgetting a good feed of blackberries. I tell you everything in the gulden was lovely- on Sunday, February 10. One feels proud to boast that there is nothing to beat it in any part of the world. The only' thing missing was a few seats here and there about the city to accommodate visitors.—Yours etc., ’ LOOKING AHEAD. Mount Pleasant, Canterbury, February 13th, 1935.

WHO IS THE LIAR?

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln order to find out definitely “0"’ the unemployed lived, the Bev. D. M. Martin, Presbyterian Minister, at Miramar, used his vacation period by joining the unemployed and "lived” as they "lived.” At the end of the period, he said that "the very first lie that ought to be hung up by the neck until it is dead is the lie that there is no hunger in New Zealand.” He gave an account of his own hunger during the period and said that men had been enduring "such hunger for months and even years.” The sequel will be a further revelation to Mr. Martin; he has no doubt told the blunt truth and therefore must be discredited; he will be shocked to hear that the new knight, Sir Alexander Young( who has not tried to live on 10/- a week) is given plenty of space in the paper to discredit, per Press Association the reverend minister’s utterances; leading articles appear in the boss class press "proving” Mr. Martin a liar; there is no hungry in New Zealand ” etc. Let them protest, and keep on repeating "there is no hunger”, these self deceivers, but none of them is game to .lo what Mr. Martin tried to do and that is actually to live on 10/- a week' The Swiss "Bazler Naehriehten ” under the title “A Crazy World” published an editorial quoting statistical data showing that in 1933 ail over the world 2,400,000 people perished owing to starvation, and 1,200,000 persons committed suicide on the same ground Simultaneously, in order to keep prices high, the following products were destroyed (according to this paper)— 568.000 ears of bread; 144,000 ears of rice; 267.000 sacks of coffee; 2.560,000 kilograms of sugar. Besides 432,000 cars of bread were used for fuel- 650000 kilograms of canned meat’ were destroyed and 1,450,000 kilograms of fresh meat. The figures of the "Bazler Natehrichten” are sufficient, but far from complete. We know that foodstuffs in this country are destroyI'd rather than allow their use without profit. To be "respectable” you must keep the real murk, degredation and misery of this horrible system hid-' den behind a veil of silence. The working class employed and unemployed. understand and appreciate men of the calibre of the Bev. Martin, and know such sincerity as he has shown cannot be discredited.—l am. etc., ALEX. GALBRAITH.