MINISTERS MOVEMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16815, 4 April 1918, Page 6

MINISTERS MOVEMENTS.

Ths Hon. A. 51. Myers, Minister for if Customs and Minister for Munitions and '|i Supplies, left for Wellington last evening. vs| HI ■ * ' LETTERS TO TIE EDITOR Jf —— ' I THE WAIKUMETIi CEMETERY. jf vf Sir,—l should like to support the appeal i . of Mr. T. E. Whitton in \Tednesaay'i p Herald. None wilt deny that tho resting :' place of the dead should bo kept with | reverent care. In & great Christian city ty . it is not seemly that public parks, where the • living find pleasure, should have lavish attention, while the graveyard lies -k ill-kept and unlovely. I havo never gone $ . to the Waikuriret«i, ccmotory without af| feeling of shame that it should be as it V is after having been over a-quarter of a'p century in use. " To see its bleak and bare ' slopes on a rainy winter's - day is to ' feci 4 the heart turn.cold* The .recent improve- 7 ments call for the appreciation, not only of those whoso loved ones lie at - rest) j| yondur, -but also of the whole Auckland I public, and I venture respectfully to hope j that nothing will prevent the work being 1 1 carried to ft worthy completion. •April 3. 0, H. Laws. j WARNING OIF STORMS. '- v 1 I ,—-A ' Correspondent, Mr. W. .P. I MtCallum, has evidently misunderstood (X tho intention of my remarks on this sub- | iect. They certainly were not intended § to cast any reflection on the officials of : | the Harbour Board, but to draw attention, Without going into detail, to the I Bystein.pmtifcid'KJifto yWM'ftgo tod that 1 i which obtains now.. It was customary for -f the deputy-harbourmaster to go round tho W shipping oft the wharves, insist On extra' I moorings, and order vessels away , frotH -|S dangerous placet), Mid & storm signal win v, hoisted in a conspicuous place. Like Mr.Y;| McCalluta, I Alto believe in giving creditl J whew credit in due, and I acknowledge t my indebtedness, to tho harbourmaster and his staff for much consideration and assistance, also can hear testimony to the $ fact that Ae chief'harbourmaster braved va ' Hid cltirtfli.B during t the height of the I gala \mtil after mfdnight, in Jus effort to >1 savoy property. Mr. McCallum is of f! opinion that it was unnecessary to warn me, as we 1 had one of the safest berthijfl ' in the harbour. ' Allow me to state' that'% ' all our boats, with the exception of one : 1 that Was away, 'suffered' damage—One very serious— that I'.was personally ' engaged all through the night endeavour* ing to save a them from , total destruction. My contention : is that there are no safe berths during a north-east galo for small teswlg On this side of the harbour. As a woof of this, witness the damage to'the.® board own property. The fire-float, moored end on in What is alleged to b»st onft of the tafest.berths in the harbour, sustained considerable damage, while ~ the If stow Q&ttnot, which Was also considered v|| to,be safe, seeing that she was laid tofi Buffered such damage that it it a question whether she is worth fepairing. - WSm . > ' J. H. RiiAiftm' ( Queen Wharf, Auckland, April 2.' J ■ the egotist. , .'lpi Sir,— is, reported that ono of our law* makers, who is serving a term of ia« 4 prisonment for disobeying the law, made the following remark!-" When Parliawent meeta, Uie Government will have'to take me to Wellington." As we read ths;||| daily papers, wo are almost overwhelmed by the thought of tho magnitude of thd'ta work that has to be done now, it the sff world is not to be enslaved by a strong, immoral, military Power. This work can. not be done by women, «iiddle-agdd;. OfMS old men, it can only be done by strong young men. Young men in their millions hftvo -kWB this, hud cried. " Here am J M send Wo,' but the egotist says, " Whoa Parliament meets the Government will 7 -® ' have to take tto to Wellington." There | is a large and important part of our|M countrymen whose work isolates thein from their fellow men, and necessitates j a their working under conditions that Brejpf! • not normal to man—that is, away froiaj^i. • Uie sunshine and fresh air of Heavw. |p i These conditions tend to give men & loptSM 1 . sided view of life. The man who refW •• Bents them in Parliament has to watclt i- well over ' ie ' fights, interests, and, ii* ;|f , addition, can ;do much to keep bW'bW;|s| i. their minds the truth.that the nation -w,■'ill » greater than" any part of it, -but the Ml V egotist says, "when Parliament meets' ; :S| '• the Government will have to take me to,M " Wellington." For the egotist to he found ill our mental hospitals we have onlyi^i® • Pity, hut wo ha ye loathing for the one : that Shelters behind religion and .calttJ-M , itself " conecientiouo objector," We fiel'lU i, that this kind of egotist can well shake' [• hand* with the hypocrite who shelters hi* 0$ evil doing under &• cloak of religion. }® A New Zealand-Born Woman. || - M