IN THE LIGHT OF COMMON SENSE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 7

IN THE LIGHT OF COMMON SENSE.

TO THE EDITOR OP "THE FRESS. • . Sir.—That was the heading to an article that appeared in your.-issue of ••' the 7th in treating of the subject of relieving the disabilities of Lyttelton , harbour. I ask you to insert the following from the annual report of the Lvttelton Harbour Board for 1905»— , "In this connexion it is well-to bear in mind that any present disabilities, do not come from the water side, but aro on the land side, and as trade increases this position ivill be more _ pronounced. Lyttelton station yard is infinitely more congested when business is brisk ' than the water side is likely to be for many years.'' You state: "The real remedy for present disabilities is tlm duplication of the. railway tunnel.'' If : that enabled more goods to be brought into Lyttelton, would it not help- to increase tho disabilities? Would it not ho more "In the Light of Common - Sense" to open the estuary, and thus reicove the coal and timber trade out* [of Lyttolton? This could be done for a comparatively small amount, and without much loss of time. It would not influence the public to abandon Lyttelton, but would rather tend to bring about- ! further improvements.—Yours, etc. JOSHUA LITTLfc. FESTIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND ' MUSIC. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir, —In your issue of _ Monday last there is a local dealing with the music ; selected for this year's performance'of "i the above Society, containing a reference to my setting of the "Empire Intercessory Hymn," which is not . only misleading but actually incorrect. j My small contribution had not only i not been submitted and, with others, selected from sixty works, as is clearly implied in the paragraph, but had,not even at the time your paper appeared been received bv-the hon. secretary of the Festival. As a matter of fact, a deputation -waited upon me last Wednes-, dav night with a request' that I shouldii. assist the Festival by setting Miss Mackay's hymn to music. I consented to do so, and the MS. was posted on Sunday night.—Yours, etc. ■ . , JOHN C. BRADSHAW. Christchurch, March 8. SUMNER TRAM CONDUCTORS. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE I"KESS." Sir, I should like to add my testimony to that of a "Sumner Woman" in to-day s "Press/' as to the invariable courtesy of the tram conductors on that line. I am myself elderly and rather lame, and am often glad of assistance in getting in and out of the cars, aud I have never found any one of them to fail with help, when required. Courtesy on both sides is certainly desirable. —Yours, etc., — Fife PLAY. March 7th. ....