PUBLIC WELFARE.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 6, 17 July 1943, Page 1

PUBLIC WELFARE.

• As a general rule we refrain j • from editorial comment on letters; ; appearing in our columns, An- oxc-f I eption in the present instance ; ; appears to be justified in the I : interest of public welfare. i j i It will be noticed that the i ; Manager of the Humorous Concrete • I Company lays particular emphasis ; I upon the quality of the Company’s* product and also stresses that j ” users of our products meed hare! 1 no fear of being interred before I ■ death J A warning our readers ; ' may very well disregard, since ) '• none have, been known to die and, ; : when death dies occur, three i months must elapse before it is certified# This effort to capitalise the fears of our readers is no more than a piece of commercial blackmail, and should bo • treated as such. I A warning the Manager omitted j to mention, and one that is al- ' . most common knowledge, is that ~ ' many reputable newspapers, in - f eluding the N.Z. Herald, aft inteU rred before death. Too many nowe-j ! papers fall into the clutches of ; , hysterical, sometimes highly con-t ; stipated customers of such Compan ; ies as the Humorous Concrete • i Whether by design or by accident ‘ ■wo do not protend to know. We i ; have sufficient confidence in thd cultural & civic conscience of ; our readers to know they will not suffer Dozerdust to bo used for ! such undignified purposes# i . i Another aspect of tho Company’d : business methods which merits ..j

j an investigation by a Part liamontary Commission is 4 the practice of associating ; their ” Seats ” with the I personal habits of prominent people. It is well ; known that photographs of i the late & illustrious • Queen Victoria, Richard j Soddon and Michael Joseph ( Savage are hung in obscure j and sometimes evil smelling i places whore one finds the j much vaunted " Seats ’.Wo ‘ fool sure that had such i notable people been asked, ! they would not have said:- ! ” If I used ” Seats ” it would have been Humorous Concrete Company’s 3 All fair minded people, wo are sure, will approc- • iato our protest. In mak- ; ing it wo wish it to be i knoifa that our policy is f dictated entirely by tho ' welfare of our readers# We ’ are not, as ignorant fell- ’ ows imagine, controlled by 4 the Kelly Gang, the Bank t . of England or Vested Inter—j ests. Our boast is that i we are ENGLISHMEN#