Letters to the Editor

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 7

Letters to the Editor

F. E,

NOTTAGE.

CURFEW.

FlkEi) J.

CLEARY.

Rubbish Fruit (To the JEditor.) Sir, — I was attraeted "oy, and greatJy Lnterested- in the speeial artxele on page i'our of your issue of Friday lasi, January 22, and, tor the momeat, wondered if it ia really worth while for Nelson growers to continue in ohe, business after the. scathing invective and string of adjectives from your Hawke's Bay grower. However, after perusing account saies from Nelson growers showing returns for GravenStein apples ranging from 8/- to 17/b per busnel case, reeeived during the past three weeks, I have come to the cohelusion that wa may as well try to carry. on a littla longer even if we do not seeura a guaranteed price on the local market. My determination to carry on has been atrengthened by the recexpt of a parcel of apples from a Iriend in a well-knojvn JNorth Island' town. These apples were purehased over the counter from a well-known fruiterer, and were supplied by a Hawke's Bay orchardist. 1 am forwarding the specimens for- your information same. mail. 1 You. will nate that they are of the Graven-stein variety and that all the adjectives used in your article of 22nd, with referenee to immaturity — disease, deformed shape, rejects, rubbish. and cracks apply in this case ' at least equally with the Nelson fruit in Wellington. Further, the cracks are longer, wider and deeper. It would appear that your Hawke's Bay grower has aniple scope for his missionary zeal much nearer home than Wellington and Nelson. — Yours. etc..

. Tasman (Nelson), Jan. 27. [The samples of apples submitted by our correspondent, and which, he says, came from a Hawke 's Bay orchard, undoubtedlyean be classed as "rubbish fruit." The samples have been sent to the secretary of the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers ' Association for referenee to the Fruit Advisory Committee.— Editor.] S Beile Clangour (To the Editor.) Sir, — This ceaseless "ring-in" of bathing belles is decidedly unmusical, at least it must be so from Mr Spiller's viewpoint. Considering the vast amount of work suceessfully carried out by him for the Thirty Thousand Club, over a large uumber cf years, it seems a great pity that such loud peals of discord should be clanging over what is obviously the mistalte of a very zealous and probably_ overworked rnan. Wouldn't it be a very sporting, harmonious, and .unseliish gesture On the part of the winning Waipawa belles to return such a eontentious prize and ger, an apparently much-maligned man out of a difiiculty which was partly attributable to them? Are there not bats somewhere in ths belle-fry 1 — Yours, etc..

Waipawa, Jan, 28,

The Stay-in Strike Sir, — Your replies to my "cornplaint" are not entirely satisfactory. I claimed that you published certain grossly misleading and incorrect statements. That is tiie issue and there ia no side-tracking. As you now link the hard-working dairymeh" with the 'hneat growers" it is only reasonable. to assume that you admit these two sections of industry were involved in the recent trouble. It is rpgrettable that you couch your reply conceiming ' the. wage-rare claimed by the unions at the ' Court hearing. In "case you doubt the. authenticity of the statement,. a set of the claims are herein. , enclosed. These are. being forwarded i solely for the purpose of substantiating the previous statement that the minimum ixoui'ly rate claimed was 2/6. They may also prove to you that your source of information is. not the most reliable. — Yours.. ©te

Hastings, Jan. 27. [ W e did not question our correspondent 's statement as to the ra.te yf wages originally claimed by the Union. j That, however, does not neeessa,rily I mean that it was the rate eventualjy urged by its advocate upon the Court, "demands" generally providing . a ixberal "bargaining margin." The fact that the striking unionists knew the interests of hard-working dairymen were involved only makes the strikers' action the less excusable. It is not the " Herald-Tribune " but our correspondent who is eide-tracking the xeal issnes. They are (1) whether the Minister. of Labour intends further to tolerate or encourage "direct aetion" of either the "go slow," or the "stayin," or any other type, and (2) whether he means to abolish the Arbitration Court and, if so, what he proposes to substitute for it. A statement from Mr Armstrong appearing to-day does not in any way definitely answer either of these questions. — Editor.]