Unstaggered Holidays

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 10

Unstaggered Holidays

Sir,—Cobbling is an exhausting and unhealthy calling, and it is only natural for its practitioners to want to straighten their backs occasionally. But one point of “Bootsie’s” argument strikes me as being a trifle illogical. Shoes which may be alive and kicking in November, may well be dead on their feet, as it were, by January. Personally I always call the first half of this month the “Children’s Hour,” since everyone sems to be pursuing “play-way” with undivided concentration. Wouldn’t it be more satisfactorily recreational if we spaced out our activities a bit? If we did, perhaps fewer of those people who should have their “shoes (and cars and bicycles) repaired in November," as suggested by your correspondent, would find all three two months later, temporarily (or even permanently) off the road.—Yours, etc., LS.T. January 16, 1966.

Postal Service

Sir,—On December 13 a duplicate driver’s licence was posted to me from a suburban post office in Christchurch. After waiting a few days for its arrival, I made three toll calls to the sender, one toll call to the Chief Post Office, and two calls to suburban post offices trying to trace the letter. 1 was given no satisfactory explanation. Somewhere, lost. I was told that if 1 was lucky it might still turn up. The cost of the toll calls, postal note for duplicate licence,

etc., amounted to nearly £2. 1 have been informed that if “I send another postal note I will have another licence sent out. What is to stop the person who finds my licence from using it? What am 1 to do if 1 am presented with a summons concerning the breaking of some traffic rule by this person?—Yours, etc., GIVEN UP. January 11, 1966. [The Chief Postmaster (Mr J. W. Lincoln) replies: “If the correspondent will supply full particulars concerning the missing letter to the investigating officer, Room 8, Chief Post Office, an official inquiry will be made. I am unable to comment on the legal aspect of the use of the correspondent’s driving licence by another person. The misuse of a driver's licence is a matter for the Transport Department.”]