MOTOR PARKING IN FRONT OF SHOPS

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 4, 20 May 1927, Page 4

MOTOR PARKING IN FRONT OF SHOPS

(To the Editor) Sir, —If the elastic evasions of "Main Street's" reply in your last issue were not blatant as its vitriolic verbiage, such an encroachment as was his upon your valuable space could perhaps be excused. Such a splenetic outburst —and from his whole nothing has come but wind, and far too much at that—serve no useful purpose, and if intended to obscure the real issue of the controversy is a successful failure. Let us keep to the issues and not deviate into the fields of/frolic. I maintain that "Main Street's" reply is "no answer" to the facts outlined in my previous letter—he has failed to demonstrate the fallacy of any of my propositions. Your correspondent challenges me to give one specific instance of a business man being one of the chief. offenders. I know of nearly a dozen, but it would not be fair to you, sir, to give these gentlemen a free advertisement in this excellent journal. lam prepared, however, at any time to supply your correspondent with the names of at least eleven business men who are among the most frequent transgressors. One illustration of how "Main Street" has evaded the issues is that he has failed to refer to, let alone demonstrate, that my argument "that peace of mind is essential to successful business" is unsound. "Main Street" too, would have us believe that the "automobile" is responsible for the decrease in the world's bix*th rate. (In the interests of our dear little babes your correspondent should therefore ' consign his "All British Standard Car" to the scrap heap.) "Main Street's" Statistician's statistics, however, may be correct, but really, sir, his interpretation of. the facts (which is of more importance) appear to my humble understanding to have missed the target by a mile. In this connection I can see your enlightened readers smiling audibly and likening our friend to the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that wasn't there. I have contented myself with dealing only with three points previously raised by me, and shall leave your other correspondents "Car-Parker" and "Indignant".to deal the death knock to. "Main Street's" other sophisms and subterfuge.—l am, etc., "73-355."