Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 11

Citizens Say

(Continued from Page 10.) HARBOUR BRIDGE AND IMPORTED MATERIAL Sir,— Your correspondent, W. A. Carter, recommends the use of ferro-concrete for the harbour bridge in preference to steel, one reason being that the latter would have to be imported, with the result that money would be sent out of the Dominion. Might I be permitted to say that we do not pay for import with “money,” but with money’s worth; i.e., primary produce. That being so, what objection can there be to sending it out? The transaction would be merely an exchange, as mucn money’s worth coming in as going out. In this sense it may be truly said thu the importation of steel for the bridge would not send any money out of the country. Nor would it reduce em?> : ment by a single hour, seeing that the work we gave to the foreigner would be offset by the work he must find for us if he is to be paid. The fallacies with which I am dealing are very prevalent in New Zealand and should be challenged every time they appear. They lead to unsound thinking, with the result that laws are put on the Statute Book which are inimical to the well-being of the Dominion. C.H.N.

LEYS INSTITUTE LECTURES

Sir.— Under the above heading, your correspondent, Mr. Herbert Mulvihill, in your issue of yesterday called attention to what appeared to him to be a factor militating against a larger attendance at Dr. E. P. Neale’s Saturday night lectures. I should like in the first place to correct the impression which the heading may suggest that the Leys Institute has arranged the lectures. The series is being held under the auspices cf the Workers’ Educational Association, the W.E.A. having been generously granted the free use of the hall by the institute trustees. I should like further to add that the association considers itself fortunate in having been able to enjoy the use of a room so well adapted for lecture purposes. We regret that by an oversight which any one of the audience nvight have remedied in a moment a draught was added to an evening already cold enough. The real difficulty has been the inclement nature of the weather, which has been felt in all lecture rooms during this winter, and while appreciating the factor mentioned by Mr. Mulvihill. it should be remembered that an accidental circumstance was responsible for the discomfort, and that the lecture hall is, as I nave mentioned above, excellently suited to our educational requirements. L. A. MANDER, Director Tutorial Classes.

TRAWLING

Sir.— I desire, to reply to Mr. Sanford’s statements relative to fishing restrictions. His remarks are very specious, for doubtlessly the public opinion needs diverting from such unpleasant topics, ‘ or it is already extremely sore beause of the high price of fish, and ; 8 failure to realise a cheap commodty of food despite the fact that do operate, and are, as Mr. »x?* ord annually tells us, to bring this promised Utopia, f .have fished annually in the Hau*Ki Gulf and I have fished in the ‘Orth Sea, and either Mr. Sanford is srtorant of his subject in Europe or lio l8k ? e Ping the truth from the pub- * ® c * en tific research must be based truth, not that which is hoped to ultimately proven, is absolutely incorrect to say that ® trawlers have not depleted and in*? por tions of the North Sea. Dur- « the war all restrictions were recn»V+ from trawlers on the Yorkshire VP* as a war measure. About a f p r a &° I was Home again, and found t n - m all the fishing villages and dpnw that not °nly had the seas been bppiSi ’ also so seriously had the ng grounds been damaged that l. lers had now to go a five days’ to f? ey to the North Atlantic, and even T^ h ?v? oast of Africa. Whii tllis Happen in New Zealand cmJ?* an a Pathetic attitude allows proap Good fish and edible into manure, good fish are a i ap ecl as f have seen when there is i n Haul, and the shores of bays derail ? uare being strewn with unv ent Z * and dead fish after the addr*p ° l the traw lers, so let everyone th e r n< !£ only for the expulsion from fceads*- but from right outside the °«vo nport . A - ROBERTSON.