MR RUSSELL REPLIES.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 118, 13 May 1932, Page 5

MR RUSSELL REPLIES.

(To the Editor).

Sir, —In your correspondents’ reply to my remarks on unemployed methods they have taken a wrong impression of their meaning. Mr Hales states I should have sent my suggestions to the Local Unemployment Committee. That is so if they referred to local conditions only, but my remarks were applied to the whole Dominion. In my suggestion to the Unemployment Board the order system should apply only to those who were not capable of taking their earnings from office to home. I fail to see where any injustice can: be done under this system of order forms which would provide for their requirements. The names of business firms, as they wish, can be endorsed thereon. There is no one more regrets than I do the unfortunate position that so many good citizens of all classes have been reduced to under the economic depression. In relief concessions the towns are getting advantages over the country on stand down week and on rations. Why, I don’t know. The country worker is more self-reliant and efficient than the big centres and probably the Unemployment Board places this handicap on his virtues. We are going through a nerve-racking period—we are touchy and jumpy and feel the worst is on our own heads. At the same time we can look round and realise we are not alone in that respect. This is a good old world if we had kept it so. We are stranded in the desert at present, with empty water-bags, but the cloud, with the silver lining will come and trouble roll by.—l am, etc.,

A. C. RUSSELL.

Maori Hospitality “How many people stayed at your house during the hui?” a Maori witness was asked in the Supreme Court at Auckland. “About thirty/’ was the answer. The witness had just said that the house referred to contained “about four rooms/’. ;