CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 6

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE

G. Steel refers to the Imperial advance into Syria as deliberately seeking to frustrate the Divine will of gathering ali nations against Jerusalem to battle. " So," he says, " there will come another and last withdrawal from the north and another and last withdrawal from the south —at last to safety, for we shall be defending our own borders, as instructed. But our people are not interested yet. They would still, in their thousands, rather write and ask for. more intriguing love stories over the radio on Sunday evenings." " Rex, Pax, Lux," commenting on the decisions of the Armed Forces Appeal Boards, especially in country districts where residents are familiar with particular cases, says that mertibers of the board would be very pleased if they could " listen-in at some of the week-end parties and hear how cleverly they have been outwitted." But perhaps, he says, it would be doing General Freyberg an injustice to send him the "fainthearts, as it was certainly not men of that type who fought the great battles.in Greece and Crete. ' , " Urgency" writes in satirical vein of the decision of the Oamaru Borough Council to erect public conveniences on the site at Cooney's Corner known as " The Island." Undoubtedly no more convenient site could be chosen, he says. "It will be in the • direct route northward from the main picture theatre, ■at one of the most used cross roads in the town, passed by all north or south-bound traffic, convenient to the railway bus station, and visible from five streets and the main shopping area." -He trusts that it will be built in the'" traditional white stone, as a thing of beauty is a joy for ever."