CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16477, 1 September 1915, Page 2

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

F Morgan, writing from St. Leonards, protests against "the unedifying .conduct of the residents 'who shamelessly desecrate the Lord's Day by making it one of general utility a 'arid: by publicly working ;i*;tljeir. gardgra, , offending the religious sensibilities of their more tiod-fe&ring neighbours. Have the police, he asks, no powejr to stop this sinful conduct? They havo'prosecuted Chinamen for a like offence.-Why. not then apply the law to those who think themselves the Chinaman's superior, but ; unlike him, cannot plead that they, sin . m lgnor- " expresses the hop© that the request of the farmers of Otago and Southland for the' removal of; the embargo . f on the exportation of oats will refused for the soke ( of the people into country who make their living through .horse work, etc. In other years, if the farmer got 2s to 2s 6d per bushel for oats he reckoned he was doing well, but in this.time of. warj- when we are told we should .be patriotic and make sacrifices for the good of. the country, he wants'4s to 4s 6d bushel .and , will hang oh-through thick and -thin_till. he gets it The Government also.. _ Contractor says, -worked a 'cute trick this year while feed is so dear. In the. 'ordinary course of events the mail contracts \Vould .have becn called for this spring,, but the unsettled state of the_ country, as they put it the postal authorities wrote to all contractors asking them to renew their contract for another year at the same price,_ If they had said it was " o-ving to the high pnee ■of feed" it would have been nearer the truth, as they knew well that contracts would have gone up 10 per cent, or 20 per cent, if called for this year. No doubt it was optional for a man to contmuo 1m contract,' but if he had refused he would have had a very poor chance at getting his <*J n " tract back again. ;It is "ui> to .™e vernment, if.it is worth its salt, to help the contractors in return by keeping down tho price of horse feed as much as possible. Let it show that it works for the common good, and not- for one class, as it has done in the past. '