Public Opinion THANKS TO POWER BOARD RADIO INTERFERENCE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 16, 25 July 1949, Page 4

Public Opinion

THANKS TO POWER BOARD

RADIO INTERFERENCE

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

Though their views on all subjects are freely published here because we believe it our duty to uphold the public’s right to freedom of opinion, our correspondents’ opinions are not necessarily shared by this newspaper.

Sir, —May I, through your columns, express thanks to the Bay of Plenty Power Board for its consideration in eliminating the power cuts on the night of All Blacks’ first test. I am sure that their action was gratefully appreciated by all football enthusiasts. As one • who has indulged in many expletives in very Basic English at 10.30 p.m. nightly and especially on the occasion of the cricket test broadcasts, I am truly grateful. We can only hope that, on the occasion of future football and cricket tests, the Board may be able to repeat this action so that .the Bay of Plenty sports followers may share in the 10,000 odd kilowatts used by the rest of New Zealand during the previous cricket test. Yours etc., SIDELINE EXPERT. As we understand it, the elimination of the cut that night was due to Borough Council representations to the authorities, and we are sure our correspondent would want to include that body in his thanks.— Editor.

Sir, —I was glad to see “Shut In’s” letter in your columns. Probably this lady cannot get her favourite religious session on Sunday, but what burns» me up is the fact that a ten valve set can’t get the Wellington races for the commercial racket deep in the heart? of industrial Kopeopeo. Every New Zealander has a horror of “pimps” but it seems as if constant abuse of innocent people demands stern measures. It was well worth staying up all night to hear Wellington’s efforts to rebroadcast the test. The only other week-end broadcast that I can remember clear of static was when Hilton Porter broadcast his appeal for Sunday silence. Perhaps the offenders thought he would mention their names. Could be! / Yours etc., “DISGUSTED.”

Sir,—There is • nothing succeeds like success—if success is successful. Often it is not, because one repeatedly hears “success has spoilt him.” So the unsuccessfulness of success terminates in spoil'ation. For instance, the ploughing in of cotton and tobacco, the burning of wheat, dumping coffee, fruit and other perishable foodstuffs at sea. These appeared on the screen recently pictures showing the ruthless destruction of cars, trucks, tractors, food machinery—millions of pounds worth—when the Americans evacuated New Guinea. The same thing happened the world over. Why? The answer is Parliamentary’-* Elections, which really are a wimy warfare in which candidates do their best to blow their opponents’ lights out. Those who are held responsible for the surviving glims (or M.P.) have no voice in the spending of the money to keep the show going. ' /

Acts of Parliament are prepared by the legal profession in terms that are Greek to the majority of members and bristling with problems that require an endless succession of costly Government Commissions that pull the acts all to pieces.

If a builder built a house he intended the owner to pay him to pull down, would he get away with it? The majority of representatives answer the division ball, laugh, cheer and jear with their colleagues but otherwise are dumb.

The House generally has to keep time with the conductor’s baton be he Tory or Labour. The musical scene is composed in U.S.A. The crying of the blood of millions slain, widows tears and the anguish of others bereaved,, the heartbreaking pleadings of starving children, sAy rigorously blacked out, to make room for the praise and adoration of the “Almighty Dollar” the salt of the earth that has turned the milk of human kindness into the bitter curds of envy, malice and hatred.

But above the noise and turmoil of human contention for supremacy arises the calm assuring voice of the Divine Reformer “Earthly kingdom shall pass away. But my kingdom is everlasting “The Kingdom and Heaven within you” “Be of good cheer for I Lave overcome the world.” Yours etc., HARRY SERGANT.