“THE SADDEST FEATURE”
To The Editor
Sir, —There is always the suspicion, when anyone is afraid to put his name to a rude letter, that he may have some other secret vice. Is it whisky in “W.K.’s” case? Evidently not cocktails. I am not disguising myself, but only trying to help an evidently feeble memory in signing myself with his name for me.—Yours, etc., MR SOMEBODY OR OTHER. January 14, 1938. To The Editor Sir,—ln a recent issue of The Southland Times appeared a letter from a visiting English business man referring to the inconvenience caused by Invercargill being a prohibited city. While endorsing all that he said, I would like to supplement it by stating that the city is practically becoming the home of bootleggers, methylated spirit drinkers and keg artists. Even the City Council aids and abets when framing the taxi rates within the city boundaries. Let me quote my own experience only this morning. Wishing to post letters on the Dunedin 7 a.m. express (if such it should be called), and having lost time in an endeavour to obtain stamps, I had to take a taxi to the railway station (a distance of about 200 yards) and was charged eighteen pence —the amount fixed by the City Council. On the bus running to Bluff from Invercargill one can get a return ticket covering 36 miles for two shillings and threepence, or just ninepence more than for my ride on the taxi for 200 yards. In point of population Invercargill is entitled to the status of a city; in other respects some country towns could give it a length’s start and a licking. Do you know that the railway station bookstall is not allowed to sell postage stamps? Do you know that there is not a stamp-vending penny-in-the-slot machine nearer than the front of the post office? Do you know that Invercargill is driving away tourists from the South Island by its prohibition laws, its prohibitive transport charges, and general failure to make one’s visit an enjoyable one? Wake up, Invercargill, ere it be too late.—Yours, etc.,
BUSINESS VISITOR. January 14, 1938.
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Southland Times, Issue 23408, 15 January 1938, Page 18
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