POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 24

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“Credit” refers to the Hon. W. Nash’s statement that we have greater purchasing power as a fallacy. “The interest bill alone is proving a financial embarrassment to the country, let alone the principal,” he says. “How can industry expand, and what is the use of producing more goods, if we cannot buy them? Our purchasing power continues to diminish with higher costs and taxes,” says the correspondent. “Try to imagine how industry would expand and produce more goods if the people had more money to buy the things they need. The demand is there and the factories can meet the demand and would have to expand to do it. All that is needed is money to assist the transaction.” - “Listener No. 2,” commenting on “Uncle Tom’s” broadcast about the good qualities of the Director of Commercial, Broadcasting, suggests that there was no need to use the people’s broadcasting service for the purpose. “Julia From the Country” makes a plea lor Government help, financially and with labour, for farmers and their wives. The writer says that men will not leave the cities for country work because of Saturdays being free days. “Cyclist” advocates pedestrians and cyclists using the wrong side of the road on all unlighted roads after dark, contending that the motorist would have no difficulty in picking up a cycle lamp or a pedestrian with his own headlights. The cyclist or pedestrian could at least see the car coming at him and bear right over to the fence if in danger. “Right Hand” suggests the stationing of-a traffic inspector at the intersection of Moorhouse avenue and Colombo street from 7.30 a.m. to 9 a.m., from 12 noon to 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The writer contends that since the rule about motorists giving way to cyclists on the right is not obeyed in practice it might as well be deleted from the road code. “Two More Victims”' complain of the practice of some butchers of using artificial means of bleaching tripe. W. Mosdell considers, after “quiet and moderate consideration,” that taxation can »be “understood and apprehended as one of the greatest blessings which has yet graced our national life.” The writer enumerates the various purposes to which the revenue from taxation is put and expresses the opinion that, the present Government is “too level-headed to force upon the people a burden - too heavy for them to carry.”