LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RECRUITING SCHEME ARMLETS. Sir Concerning the above scheme, I would point out that bndjes might profitably bo issued to men under or over tiic age limit who can pass Llic modu::il examination. jMany oi. tlio.se men who look suitable aro being {postered coutiunatty b.v amateur recruiting sergeants who waiit to know why they aro njit "at the front." If these badges could bo issued to all who can reach tho mni'tary standard of physique, it V'ould serve to further hedgo in the shirker. Those armlets could ho made returnable in, say, one year, and a fresh application niade for their re-issue. J.ms .1 know'would entail a goo : l deal'more expense, but do you not think it \\on I<l he worth * while, if it is succcssiul in helping to round up the shirler.— am, ot °'' ' DIX-HUIT.

SLEEPING CARS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Si r —Concerning the abovo heading, whioh appeared in your Saturday s issue, over "Constant Traveller; re showing points to South Arrican railways, as to sleeping cars. I a Now Zealandor who lias just returned from South Africa, after 11 years' -residenco .in that countrv, and have made -o trips .from Oapo to ' Johannesburg, a ways travelling second class, mul nave always had a-'blink and bolster gratis, ion can also stop iu you sleeper on the b.A. railway, and liave two landings andla. corridor to promenade on while oil the journey. Since returning hero I have made seven trips to Auckland, ajjd havo on three occasions spent the night part of tho journey seated noxt to a female passenger. Now, as to cleanliness On niv journey to Johannesburg from tho Cape,'our carriages were swept and dusted four times on the journey, a thing which never occurred on tho Wellington-Auckland line As to tips on tho 0.G.R., it cost mo a ticto (3d.) to boots cleaned, anothor tickey for shave, etc.' We did not have any horrible gas on tho carriages there. Every train, even paltry suburban trains, wero electrically lighten and up to date. No paltry notices on .tho platform such as smoking, prohibited, and as to safety of carnages, well, 1" 'at Wellington.