OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XXXVII, Issue 34, 28 April 1917, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

Nkbtjs.—Poem? Wicker! G.V.—Decision deferred for enquiry.

CM.—Many thanks. Good, of you to care.

A.H.B.—It is not permitted to discuss that matter.

Van P.—lt was already known tihat the gentleman was Dutch. Z.D.—He began soldiering as a gunner in the old "A" battery, Auckland.

R.L.—Slab of sanctimony that can have no practical application to anything.

"Stripie."—The Soldiers.' Association will help you to unravel the skein.

N.Z.M.R.—"Enclosed please find stamps." You mx wittingly tell an untruth.

Miner.—"Coalie" in this issue says the same thing, only more pomtedlv. Thanks.

Anon.—You must send your name. When one fires a machine gun one wants to know who loaded it. Soldier.—The position is still the same. The Government takes the mental patient's military pension to pay for his treatment in the asylum. It is. harsh. W.R.l —Diatribe against a territorial magnate, every acre of whose land is being farmed to grow food, without profit to the magnate, who by the way is dying of an incurable disease m a Scotch hospital.