MISCHIEF-MAKING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 3

MISCHIEF-MAKING

(To the Editor) Sii-, —Tt is quite clear from the lone of personal letters coming in from various parts of the Dominion that the people in other parts are distinctly under the impression that things are very much worse here than they really are. They base their judgment on what they read in their own local papers, and some of the notions entertained are fantastically exaggerated. I don't know what the people in the Old Land will think when they get our illustrated papers, but with each paper I have sent abroad I have, posted at the same time a reassuring letter written in as cheerful and honeI'ul vein as possible. There is nothing like making the best of a bad jobserious enough in all conscience without making it worse—but it could so easily have been so very much more serious. I think we have every right to be heartily thankful. Tlvre is no doubt but that the worst h now over, and there may not be another such visitation for a hundred years or more. Nelson is taking her troubles calmly and saying as little about them as possible, but it is clear that letters, etc., are being sent to papers published in other parts of cur Dominion making matters look much blacker than they are. Tahuna, I find, is being confused with Nelson. That purely local land slide in that suburb is thought bv come outside to involve the whole'of'the city! This, of course, is very absurd., but at the same time it is likely to do .Nelson a great deal ci harm. Then in our midst we have still the plague of spreading of alarming reports about mere shakes, all of them the invention?! of mischievous brains. It is clear the "shakes" have wonderfully sharpened the imaginations'of some of our residents, including some who should have known better and been comforters instead of mental disturbers.—l am, etc., READER. Nelson, 24th July.