Dear Sir

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 54, 16 July 1947, Page 4

Dear Sir

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SCHOOL CHILDREN AND MOTORISTS Sir, —As a regular user of Domain Road', I was interested in a reference, in your report of a recent School Committee meeting, to the lack of consideration shown by many motorists to the Small child ren using the pedestrian crossing outside the Infant School. These breaches are still occurring daily, noticeably at mid-day and with the returning traffic at 1 p.m. Are we to await the death or disablement of some small child before incisive action is taken to deal with these thoughtless and, in some cases, criminally reckless drivers? With a certain type of driver, whose presence is only too evident in Whakatane, a pedestrian crossing is the most dangerous portion of the speedways which they make of the public roads and the culprits exist among all classes of traffic,, private cars, taxis and transport vehicles. In many towns, the older school children, themselves, are posted in turn to watch the crossings leading from schools and it seems an elementary precaution for the local school committee to institute such a system in Whakatane. Yours etc., “PARENT.’'

ABOUT FOOD FOR BRITAIN Sir, —For the benefit of those who don’t realise that there is a body of men (the Extra Territorial State) which meets in America, and actually determines what food rations the British people shall have, here is evidence:

When Sir Ben Smith was British Food Minister he said: Butter imports would not necessarily benefit the British people, as the total amount of the food for the British people was allocated by the International Food Council.’ Speaking in the House of Commons on April 4 of- last year, Sir Ben said: ‘Every time I get 10,000 tons of butter from Denmark it is my allotment from the combined Food Board.’ During the debate on Food for Britain at Canberra 1 on April 18 Mr Chifley said: ‘Honourable members should realise that the more production of greater quantities of sugar, wheat, flour and rice would not mean that the extra amount would go to the United Kingdom. The International Emergency Food Council determines how stocks of such commodities shall be distributed to all parts of the world.’ Mr Pollard, Minister for Commerce and Agriculture for Australia, speaking .prior to itr Chifley, said that jthe Government desired to send rice to Great Britain but they had no control over the matter. He also said that Australia was a member of the International Food Council, which had approved of the export of Australian, wheat to New Zealand. This is an astounding state of affairs when allegedly sovereign members of • the British Empire have the allocation of their food controlled by an international organisation with its headquarters in America. While the House is in session there should be some blunt questions asked about this International Food Council. To talk wildly about exporting increased food supplies from this country when the increased food exports, may/or will be allotted/ to people who need them far less than the British people, it is dangerously misleading at a time when every effort should be made to expose the identity and policies of the enemies of the British Empire. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.