SIDELIGHT ON SUB-STATION CONTROVERSY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19598, 19 September 1933, Page 8

SIDELIGHT ON SUB-STATION CONTROVERSY.

To the Editor of '* The 'llmaru Herald ” Sir, —Your readers will have little difficulty in casting their minds back to the year 1929, when New Zealand underwent an intensive bombardment of Labour Party propaganda with “No More War” as its excuse and slogan. The activities of Mr Clyde Carr, M.P., who, in taking the chairmanship at No More War meetings and maintaining a lengthy correspondence in your columns, sought to Impress on the public of Timaru his guarantee of our future immunity from warfare and the absolute safety of total disarmament, will be well remembered. The writer desires to place these activities in relation to the following extract from a letter recently addressed to the South Canterbury Power Board: (3) The site (i.e. that of the substation) is moreover a vulnerable one, being conspicuous from the sea. In conclusion, it is desired to use as signature the title which Mr Clyde Carr gratuitously conferred on all those persons who dared in 1929 to share those fears of foreign invasion which the member now considers to be sufficiently imminent to warrant his threatening the public with the destruction of its property by enemy naval action.—l am, etc., JACKBOOTED MILITARIST. Timaru, September 18.