LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

REPRESENTATION ON PUBLIC

BODIES.

Sis,—The public should congratulate William Belcher upon his letter on the above subject. In his letter he mentions that all kinds of people come and go, and this to my mind is quite correct.

Mr Loudorr v probably may bo a candidate for parliamentary honours. If so, ho wants all the publicity he ran get, never mindin-g at whoso exiicr.se lie secures it. Some months ago, prior to tho passing of the act which prevents company directors from a scat on public bodies, Mr Loudon was a candidate for a teat on a certain insurance directorate, and r.o doubt one of the reasons for asking the Mayor to convene a meeting to dtscuus the advisability cf getting legislation passed to allow directors to occupy positions on local bodies' as heretotoro was that lie might retain. his seat on the local bodies before deciding to take the spat offered on tho insurance company. If tho same restraint had been put. on shareholders in companies, debarring them from a s:at on public bodies, tho act, would have done all that was required. I noticed by the press reports that Mr Loudon was absent, from the opening of the hospital at Port Chalmers, and not even an apology was sent. What is uToirg? Will we believe what ho tries to toll us. that his heart is in hospital work, and still wc find him missing at- the opening of a hospital in such an important district, m Port Chalmers. I have been watching Mr London for some time,, and will still continue to do so.—l am, etc.

Electric Tukbixe. [Mr Loudon informs us that he has no interest whatever, and never had any, in any insurance comuanv flint does business in Dunedin.-Ei). O'.D.T.] LABOUR PARASITES. ~.Sii!,—'' Save us from our friends " ought to be the watchword of tho genuine worker in New Zealand. Rcwnt'events in tho Dominion and New South Wales prove diafc these who prey on Labour cost t.hs workers mere money than they aio worth. Tim cost, of strikes to the working community, owing to the counsels of paid agitators, must total a pretty tidy sum, beside.? tho cost of salaries to busy-bodies. Ono thing notbeabb about tho visiting Koir Hardies, Hodjjs, Bowlines, etc., is "that the New Zealand men of th?ir peculiar manner of vanourirtt seem to keep aloof from them. Tlio reafon probably is t.hat they know them to b2 humbugs like themselves.—l am, etc., AxTi-GiArmAP.. February 8.