POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 8

POINTS FROM LETTERS

"Corns" urges that the City Council should put the roller on the three metres of sand on the Buckle street footpath. A correspondent, "Tke Value of Prayer," asks if ministers of the various churches could not arrange to have a, quarter of an hour's prayer in each church eVery day, as was done in the war period, for guidance for the leaders of the world.' "We are in as much need now for spiritual help as ever we were, and it is only by praying to be shown the path that the world will be set right." A suggestion is made by "H.A.W." in a< letter too long for publication in full that people, instead of exchanging Christmas gifts (many p£ doubtful utility) should use the money in providing Christmas cheer and toys for the needy. The correspondent does not propose that parents should not give presents to their own young children, but that their elders should divert their own gifts to more urgently necessary channels. "Then let our gifts be New Zealand meat, vegetables, fruit, butter, cheese, honey, woollen goods (none better), boots, and other local manufactures which use our own materials. Let us purchase locally-made toys for the children, and if there be none such available, let the Unemployment Board get busy and put idle carpenters and tinsmiths to work immediately making them, and then let the stores feature them as New Zealand made. Let not the withholding of our gifts from our friends be an exuse for meanness to save ourselves money, but merely a diversion from those who will not miss them to those who so sorely need them." "Candidate" writes:—"According to the 1930 edition of the 'University Calendar' the use of logarithms tables was to be permitted, and it was further indicated that questions involving the use of tables would be set. On the time-tables supplied to candidates was a statement that tables would be supplied to those requiring them. It was a matter of considerable surprise, therefore, to find that there were no tables available, and all the more so in view of the fact that one question on the mathematics A paper was obviously intended to be solved by the use of logarithms. -Many students lost valuaßle time over this matter, not only in the examina-tion-room but also during the year in learning how to use the tables —time which they might have devoted to much better purpose in acquiring that architectural, legal, and medical knowledge so necessary for the complete comprehension of some of the other problems on the paper." -