CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

PROBLEMS TO BE WORKED OUT. (To the Editor.) Sir, —I have been reading the Parliamentary news lately. In my own defence, I hasten to add it is not a habit of mine, merely the result of a shortage in reading matter. However, it appears the Labour Party are busy. There are the guaranteed prices—they are working that out. Then there is the East Coast railway—they are working that out. There is unemployment among women—they are working that out. There are educational matters that' are being worked out, and there are hosts of other matters that appear to be in the act of being worked out. Reading between the lines, one gathers they are busy working out how many printing presses will be needed to keep the Reserve Bank going, how many eiglitpences make three million, how many pounds of butter a Kanaka eats in four years, and how many Parliamentary concession tickets are needed to buy a mile of railway sleepers. I know another club whose members have problems to work out. It is a Government club, too. My uncle belongs to it, but he has a tough problem. It is fifteen years—hard. I - should like to borrow a few Cabinet Ministers to help me work out a few things. There is an acre of potatoes up the paddock—they will take some working out. There is the cow that got bogged last spring—she did need some working out. And there is to-morrow morning’s milk still in the cows, the sixpence our Willy swallowed at Christmas, how much I owe the mission box, and how many years it is going to take to pay off the mortgage. Some of those would take some working out. I am, etc.. SHORTY.