Queries and Quandaries

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 8

Queries and Quandaries

"Truth" Would Like to Know

To what extent were, the sensational reports from Australia as to the conduct of the American sailors responsible for the lack of warmth extended to the visitors — especially during their first week m New Zealand?] Have the alarming- allegations about the excessively amorous proclivities of the visiting sallormen been adequately answered by our own experiences of the men? Whether unbiased people will not readily admit that the general behavior of the great majority of the American sailors compares very favorably with the conduct of our own bluejackets m the past? Why was the N.Z. Technical School Teachers' Association refused permission to change its name to N.Z. Technical Schools' Association? •Whether It Is ' true that litigation may arise out of a certain letter writ- j ten m connection with the projected Pipe Band contest at the Dunedin | Exhibition? * * j Whether the refuse and dust tins j placed out m front of some Govern- ; ment buildings m Dunedin comply with the requirements of the by-law?

The inspectors have lately been busy among householders who have made default m a similar manner Why Prime Minister Coates did not insist ,upon the inquiry into accidents to railway shunters being made a public one? No one suggests that the Department wishes to see accidents to shunters continue m the same alarming way as m the past few months. Surely there is nothing to hide! When will the General Election be held? How many weeks will elapse before the colorless session ends? Has it been generally noticed that the N.S.W. Labor Government has announced that "experience of the proportional representation system has proved that it is cumbersome and has not realised the advantage claimed for it?" Now, what do you know about that? - How many of the sovereigns In circulation during the past two weeks have been gobbled up by the hanks In exchange for unclean notes? Is It a fact that the contract for the supply of fruit and vegetables to the vessels of ihe American Fleet at Lyttelton was let to Chinese?