CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 113, 11 April 1940, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

GIRL IVOR KER. (To the Editor.) Sir,—l had resolved to abstain from contentious newspaper correspondence during the war, but the published piffle of an alleged working girl over the nom-de-plume of “Young YVorker” has forced me out of the bounds of restraint. “Young Worker's” vapourings against decent old-age pensioners and other physically afflicted humans is just what one would expect from an immature mind. 1 have never met an old-age pensioner who has expressed anything but gratitude for pension conditions. If “Young YVorker” was doing her job she would not find time to count the pensioners in the Square, and listen to their alleged grievances. Let me inform this girl worker that the old-age pensioners have, during their lifetime, been taxed to provide amenities ■ for “Y’oung YY’orkcr” and her like, and for which they have not contributed. I would advise this young iady to wait till she is married, a.nd has assumed some of the responsibilities that the old-age pensioners generally have shouldered, before she has the audacity to criticise -her elders. Her letter hears the stamp of the “Standard” political propaganda type. —I am, etc., YV. F. CUTLER. 47 Ada Street. Palmerston North.