CORRESPONDENCE TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 11

CORRESPONDENCE

TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Evidently due to the turmoil of war one outstanding example of the way our Socialistic Government is squandering public money, when the country is almost bankrupt, has been overlooked by most people. I refer to the grant of £625 paid to the Director of Commercial Broadcasting. Mr Scrimgeour, to cover the cost of Ins few months’ jaunt to America for the purpose of better enabling him to carry on his unofficial duty as Minister of Propaganda. And. of course, at the same time he was drawing his princely salary of £3O a week. Yet we who are called on to pay these expenses are almost prohibited from travelling by reason of the restrictions put on the use of our own money. These same restrictions also make it impossible for us to send a single shilling away for the purchase of books, etc., without receiving a permit to do so. Hundreds of people have been refused permission to send, mark you, their own money out of the country to pay their subscriptions for magazines they have been in the habit of getting, j wonder if the director and other members of the Left Book Club have the same difficulty, evidently not, judging by remarks made during Sunday evening broadcasts from the ZB stations. 1 am, etc., Disgusted. September 22.

The stairs of a seaside hotel were Hooded recently. It was high tide at the time, but the inundation was really caused by the backwash of a corpulent guest in the bathroom.