PUBLIC OPINION

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 9

PUBLIC OPINION

As expressed by correspondents whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write in ink. It is essential that anonymous writers enclose their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Unless this rule is com- ! plied with, their letters will not appear. GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE (To the Editor) Sir, —It would be interesting to know to what extent Government interference has retarded the obtaining of goods required by all obtainable from those who produce the good»? We all need oranges, a very valuable health fruit, yet the producer in Australia is willing to supply oranges and we have to go without owing to Government interference. —I am, etc., CONSUMER. Hamilton, August 19. WHOLEMEAL OR WHITE FLOUR? (To the Editor) Sir,—Presumably even Professor Hilgendorf and Dr. Stern know that the minerals and vitamins, which are nature's indispensable life-giving, building, protective and body-cleans-ing materials, are contained almost entirely in tdie husk and germ of the wheat grains (and other cereals, and are discarded in the refining process. This being the case, only a tool would voluntarily deprive himself of these vital constituents of food, and, worse still, seek to beguile others into like folly. “It must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh I” I am, etc., ULRIC WILLIAMS, N.D., M. 8., GH.B. Wanganui, August 18. HAMILTON TAXI STRIKE (To the Editor) Sir,—l have observed that almost without exception when a man writes over a jingoistic or “patriotic” noon de plume, he attacks the principle of decent wages and conditions for the working classes. “John Bull” has seen fit to criticise the Hamilton taximen for striking for a minimum of £5 for a week of 60 hours and thereby “inconveniencing the people who supply then with purchasing power.” As a supplier ol' purchasing power who was inconvenienced on Friday night, and later to learn that the men had won their fight, I would like to ask “J Bull” if I would be safe in that his wages are more than £5 a week, his hours less than 60 and his working conditions superior to those of the taximen. And further, has “John Bull’s” discipleship under the local tame Nazi llerr Fritz any political significance?—l am, etc., G. A. CRABB Hamilton, August 19.