LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31108, 11 July 1966, Page 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Just A Nut.—We agree. Grown Up.—Might become Invidious. Patrick Neary—Would reopen old arguments for which we have no space just now. Percy L. McMillan.—Highly unlikely; but you could inquire direct from the N.Z.B.C. B. A. M. Moon.—How do you know the rise would not have been greater but for the change to decimals?

Australia has had bigger rises in the basic wage. C.F.—The district officer of the Transport Department (Mr D. L. Hogan) said at the time L plates were introduced that probationary drivers were not permitted to teach another person to drive, nor to drive an ambulance, school bus, or any vehicle carrying passengers for hire or reward. All new drivers must display an L plate for two years or until they become 18 years old, whichever is the longer.

or (b) he would not have been born at all, which would have been fortunate, especially if he had been replaced by someone with a sense of responsibility towards the community and country. Any political party which will support a citizens’ tax will get my vote along with those of hundreds of other people I have spoken to. —Yours, etc., BEAST OF BURDEN. July 8, 1966.

positions where it has become aligned against the revolutionary tides of our time. The fiasco of the incident in the Dominican Republic illustrates this, making President Johnson a prisoner of the system as President Kennedy had been when he discovered the plan for the Bay of Pigs. Probably the Administration fears nothing so much as the quality of democracy it is defending in South Vietnam.— Yours, etc.,

GRANARIES OR GRAVES. July 8, 1966.