CORRESPONDENCE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3714, 12 October 1926, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor). Sir,—l ask a small space in your valuable paper to voice a small! grievance. At the last County inerting I applied for three fleet of the road adjoining the Post • Office to erect a fence arounjd our Pal ton Soldiers (Memorial. This was objected to by Mr J. Thornton otn the ground that lie carried the mail to the hack of the Post' Office. He will be lucky if that as all he has to carry. The 'mail of Glenorchyl must be getting big uf Mr Thurnton cannfot get it through twenty seven feet. The objection raised by Mr Thornton times not seem to be in keeping with the sacrifice of those oif out soldiers who fought and died for us, I am, etc., Oienorchy, Oct. 7th,

J. CRONIN.

THE BEACON LIGHT. (To the Editor.) Sir.—The beacon light is switched out at night after the Department's steamers have arrived. Public and private launches have, in consequence, to navigate the entrance without the help of this safety device, and on dark nights find themselves in considerable difficulty and in, danger of being piled up on the beacon reel. The old gas plant was {kept burning night anti day in the winter time, and in summer the large, structure was much more easily sighted than the present single standard. So electricity has brought one distinct disadvantage to Queens town at least. Some time ago. Mir H. Tomkies, launch proprietor, appealed to the Queenstown Borough Council, but they gave an evasive answer and the matter seems to have been shelved.

Now the safety of shipping 1 on Lake Wakatipu is a very important matter to Queenstown, as an accident with, perhaps, -serious toss of life wool'll do serious harm to the tourist traffic, and make timid people un,willing to visit Queenstown, as it would entail a trip on “that dangerous lake.” Oxiu* municipal street lights are, at present, burning far earlier and far Hater than is at all necessary for public safety and convenience. Could not! some of this current be. economised and deflected to keep this most essential safety device! always burning during the hours of darkness? It. could not cost much. The Marine' Department compulsorily inspects, every year all launphes plying on the lake, in the interests of public safety; yet the safe navigation ol 'these launches is apparently overlooked. Whose responsibility it is I know not, but I hope that by .pointing out this anomaly* a way may bo speedily found to remedy it, so that those on) shore, when a launch is out,' may know that, an accident on, the. beacon reef at least is unlikely. Yours Faithfully, WILLIAM A. ANDERSON.

WHICH OF TWO EVILS? (To the Editor). Sir.—Recently I have taken notice of two newspaper items; (I) a case dealing with a cabaret at Point Chevalier, Auckland; (2) the fusts being made by churches and church members over Sunday games. The first, in which the Magistrate made scathing comment on the doings of patrons of the restaurant and cabaret, taught a lesson which evidently has not been taken to heart by many outside the immediate few concerned. The second showed, to my idea, how the modern church merely brushes the surface in its attempt al reform. It fusses over the playing of clean, manly, body-refreshing games- on the Lord’s Day, while nothing is said or done to lessen this growing evil which seems to have its centre in the midst of the class whidi call© it selfs "society.” Which of these two evils do the so-called Christian leaders and elders of our Churches consider to be the more deadly to-day—the. modern dance hall with its growing dance-spot.-joy-ride evil, the imitation negro dances and dance music with its sensuous undertone; pr a game of skill played midst pleasant surroundings that bring vividly before the players the joy and beauty of the Creator's handiwork they Worship, even if they do it unconsciously—not the jazz God but the God of our fathers. Let us who desirea lead in this matter hear the Churches trumpet aloud (no matter whose feelings are hurt) their condemnation ot the modern dance hall with its evil posturing danloes and the cocktail, gin, and whisky drilnking that! IS’ indulged in by both sexes. i|u almost any dance hall oine cares to visit to , an extent uadi-earned of by those who shut their eyes to everything but what they want to see. No matter how bright “the outside of the Cup” may look,*it is the “inside" that requires the moral BCBphbing brush.—l anr, &e., NOMAN CHARLESTON.