CORRESPONDENCE

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 51, 4 December 1929, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

(While offering the public every facility for the expression of opinion, we do not necessarily identify ourselves with or accept responsibility for the views expressed.) (To the Editor) Sir, —Travellers’ tales from Heredotus to Munchausen, and from Munchausen to more recent times, have “tickled the ears of the groundlings”. And where credulity is fortified by ignorance amazing conceptions of conditions in tar countries may result. Your recent contributor of tales of this class appears to have a ppnchant for the gentle art of leg pulling, or possibly he is but the victim of others. The cost of living in the “old country” is not approximately the same as hereMany staple articles of food are about half the price. Bread 7 I A& the loaf (4lb), N.Z. cheese (for which we pay 1/3) I/- lb. Lard (locally 15) 7 1 / 2 d lb. The round of shots which abruptly ended his visit to Ireland was probably a bey scaring crows. English farmers are under no obligation to grow wheat. The state of education in England is not responsible for the hoary old chestnut that because New Zealand exports frozen mutton its climate must be sub-Arctic. And so on “ad nauseam I ’. May one hope that in future your space will be more profitably occupied than by matter of the nature referred to, even at the risk of forcing those —if any—of your readers who like this sort of thing, to turn to “Comic Cuts” for their local news. Yours etc., t J. C. M.. Kaitaia, 23 November, 1929.