CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25173, 13 March 1943, Page 2

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE

"Austral,” commenting on statements made by the Chicago Tribune, says that, proportionately to population, Australia has more men under arms than the United States has, and that it is in the American interests that Australia is defended by the United « Traveller ” alleges that dairy cattle are to be seen on some farms standing, up to their bellies, in mud and slush, and claims that farmers should be made to keep their places clean. " No Remedy Yet ” asks why Bishop Cherrington should be surprised at the increase of dishonesty in New Zealand when people earning high wages may live rent free even although the landlord may be very much in debt. A. Caldwell suggests that, out of the War Damage Insurance Fund, the Government should establish a subsidy fund for the benefit of those servicemen whose service pay is not supplemented by those who had employed them. "No Shirker” expresses surprise at the excuses that are offered by g.rls and men alike to evade war service. Some young girls have an exaggerated idea of their own importance and of the importance of the civil work in which they are engaged, physical training being an example. "Democratic Next Time” says that members of a certain class of railway workers, the surfacemen, are waiting patiently for the general election to vote to put out the Government as fast as it went in. The surfacemen on the line are the men on whom the lives of the travelling public depend for failure on their part to keep the precise levels of the rails on curves and to keep the tracks in order could nullify the whole structure of safety developed by railway engineers throughout nearly a century, but they receive the poorest wages in the service and have been denied the consideration they expected from a Labour Government.