Ventilating Various Views

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 61, 15 March 1944, Page 6

Ventilating Various Views

(To the Editor.) Sir, —May I, through the columns of your paper ventilate my views on the following subjects contained therein. At the Oroua County Council meeting, Cr. McLennan wasted considerable time expressing the pleasure Feilding Zone Patriotic Committee had in receiving knitted articles, etc., made by some very small committees of women. Exactly, but there's time and place for everything. The Council should have much more important things to discuss, such as obtaining ammunition for rabbit-shooting, the increase of rabbits becoming colossal; and the gorse bordering the roadsides and corners. An A.A. man was good enough to attend our school recently to instruct children in road safety. How can the children help themselves if they have not a reasonably clear vision of the roads? Then the Feilding Borough Council is thinking of erecting the clock tower in the middle of Feilding’s busiest road centre. In my limited travels, I've never yet seen a clock tower perched in the centre of a busy thoroughfare. The traffic cop seems to have a full-time job on Friday’s, per medium of a loud speaker directing pedestrians to follow the white lines, which, if they haven’t time or inclination to do, is their funeral. Or will another one be posted at the clock tower? Why not in the Square garden opposite Cobbe’s? At the Farmers’ Union meeting the subsidies for farmers was mentioned. Where are they? If one sells a pig, he pays cartage, insurance, and ad levy on each one. From his factory returns yearly an amount is retained for dairy research. If it's lambs he sells, he again pays railage, lorrying and lighterage to Imlay, and if it’s wool, when a handful or two is extracted from each bale at Wellington for inspection, what falls on the floor is not replaced, so he loses an average of lib on every bale. All these items mean a lot to the small farmers who seem to be under the whip in all directions. So when and where do these sorcalled subsidies come in? The only one l.know of is free railage on lime. Why not elect some women knitters on these councils, and they would do the two jobs in less time? —I am, etc., A FEMALE.