Citizens Say—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 675, 29 May 1929, Page 10

Citizens Say —

(To the Editor.)

OUR CLIMATE Sir, I have been in the “Sunshine City’ for almost a year and am still waiting for a taste of your sub-tropical climate. Whenever the words “weather” or “heat” are mentioned, the cry goes up, “Wait till February!” The question is—which February? The other centres of New Zealand are admittedly slightly colder, but they at least refrain from bragging about their warm weather. Aucklanders should avoid comparing their beautiful climate with others unless they have had experience of cites other than their own. During January's four really hot days, everyone clung gasping to the nearest support murmuring, “Heat-wave.” FROZEN IN. PASSING NOTES Sir.— So the Government is going to bolster up the old Bluff-Hobart-Melbourne trade with two 5.000-ton steamers of not less than 15 knots. How strange when a shipping company cannot make even a 4,000-ton steamer, steaming 13 knots, pay. How far should public money be used to bolster up an unprofitable trade? The Prime Minister represents Bluff and other parts of Southland, but surely a man who has stopped the Taupo railway and the Palmerston North deviation would not entertain a service of any kind that could not show a working profit? The Morningside tunnel is a live subject at present. To be or not to be? That is the question. Which is the more payable proposition—the shortening of the journey from Auckland to Heiensville or the completion of a line from Glenhope to Murchison?

The Maui Pomare is here for a spell if not. for keeps. Why is this vessel a failure? Why was she not built on the Tyne or the Clyde? Why is it that

a Government job is never so satisfactory as a private job? The City Council and the Transport Board are in the melting pot of publicopinion. What will happen? What about a general post or puss-in-tlie-corner? It seems about fifty-fiftv whichever way we take it and the public pays every time. We all have a nice policy if we get in and the nice policy goes into our pockets when we i get in and remains neat and clean until 1 another election comes along. Meanwhile we admire each other and everything in the garden is lovely. DR. NIKOLA. “HIS WORD HAS LIVED” Sir,-*— Dr. W. 11. Pettit must be far too busy a man to stop to answer flippant contributions. I have a great admiration for him and the other fine men who are making so great a stand for Gods Word. I think it would be a very good thing if every word of their speeches were put into print. It would enable those who are unable to hear them personally, a t the L nity Hall, to understand more fully their stand against Evolution. Evolution itself is going to turn turtle when the right time comes, for God says: “My words shall not pass away.” His Word has lived through all the years since. Take, for instance: “W hile the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, and day and night shall not cease.” W hat is man that he should dare to set up anything contrary to the Divine Word? Supposing God no longer sustained the world by ailowng wheat and other eatables to grow, could man make them grow t 111 grant that he does his part by planting, but the Power of God alone allows it to grow. Evolution is as a pore of the body