"CHEAT EXPECTATIONS."

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2711, 4 March 1916, Page 3

"CHEAT EXPECTATIONS."

Sir, —Ho the one shilling per day so generously promised as separation allowance to married members of the Expeditionary Force. I would bo glad it one of your readers (if any), who is getting this, could 1 ' tell me liow to go about getting mine also. Mv husband went into camp oil October '12, and 1 Jmve been trying cvor since to get

, some satisfaction from that paternal institution i known as the Base Rccords. To date the Defence Department owes me £7 Is., and though I had a letter three _ months ago • saying . that my application had reached Wellington and ■ was in order, a week or two ago I was - calmly informed that they had no record of my husband or my application, but the matter would be' referred to the officer commanding Trentlia-m Camp, "his, coming on top of tlio Ministerial boast that the Base' , Records > Office could tell you all about any man of the thirty odd thousand who had enlisted, oven to the colour of his hair, etc., is something of a bomb, and leads one to believe that everything 1 is not quite so_ bright as it is painted in the Ministerial orations.—l am, etc., GREAT EXPECTATIONS. February '29, 1916. ' .. P-S.—Do yoii think it would assist it 1 offered to invest my one shilling per day m war loan stock? . TThe complaint of the writer of the letter was brought under the notice of the Defence Minister (the Hon. J. Allen). Mr. Allen said that the only course tho writer could follow was to put her complaint personally or by w n- '*? "Q-jM.-G.4i" Brandon Street, Wellington, which means in ordinary speech, "Base Records." 'As tho name ot tlie writer was not given him, he could not himself institute inquiries. But Jlr. Allen pointed out that if the writer s husband had enlisted, his file must bo in the office, and if application were made all claims against his pay •and separation allowance would be settled.] A HINT FOR THE CITY AUTHORITIES, ' ~ Jhe evening paper of the rfrd ;nst. I have read with great interest the column headed "Death in the ■7.nst." Mr. Luke asks the eo-opera-tiou of all citizens in helping io pre-, vent the spread of this terrible disease •--infantile paralysis. I would, there--i , . Sir, what steps tho Oity Engineer, Mr. Morton, is taking with regard to the "tip-head" at the south end of Wallace Street. Daily" U>o Mveopinga from the woodblocks of the streets with the clearings the sumps (Newtown) are stackcd there together with all kinds of tin's from the backyards, old bedsteads, bicycles, and very often mattresses, none of which have been through the . destructor. After school hours children,collect there, searching for marbles, wood, bicycle wheels, etc. Only this.evening i counted twenty-two children, from about'tlio" a S L 's -of four to twelve, scattered Over all this filthy rubbish ► Iu a northwesterly wind the- smell from this tip. liead is vile. At times it can "bo smelt in Hall Street, a distance of about fifteen chains. Thero is not tho slightest doubt but that there will be a «reat epideriiic of sickness if the City Council allows this nuisance- to' continue. Apologising for taking, .up'so ' .'much space in your valuable paper,—l am,' Ct. DOUGLAS HEWITT.