Citizens Say—

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 8

Citizens Say —

(To the Editor.)

“NO CRITICISM WANTED”

Sir, — As a boatman I am surprised ai. the letter from Mr. Tamlin, owner of the “Star’* boat June. If the owners of Ola are good yachtsmen it is because they have carefully studied the sport and studied their boat. Possibly a compromise could be arranged by splitting the Ola’s crew and having one of them partner Mr. Tamlin or the owner of Moa. lam sure that Messrs. Swinnerton are sportsmen enough to share their knowledge and experience with other “Star” boatmen. YACHTSMAN. “ON THE AIR” Sir,— After reading “Announcer’s” spiteful attack upon our popular announcer of IYA, I cannot refrain from answering it. “Announcer,” I should say, has yet to learn that life demands more of him than the destructive and harassing criticism of his superiors. If he adversely criticised the voices and the enunciation of some of the announcers, one would not be surprised, but to attack publicly “the” announcer of IYA because his pronunciation of a single Maori word does not coincide with that of “Announcer” savours of pettiness, not to say spite. A. LISTEN33R “KARANGAHAPE” Sir,— _ln answer to your correspondent signing himself “Announcer,” in your issue of the 25th, I should like to call his attention to the fact tha: the position of announcer is a very difficult one to fill, and one cannot expect an announcer to be perfect on all points. Should your correspondent find himself in a similar positnon he may make far greater errors. I notice he does not give the pronunciation of the above word, which I am given to understand is not ccrrect Maori. Perhaps some of our Maori students would enlighten us or. the subject. ANOTHER WHO DOES NOT KNOW. CLEAN UP OUR PARKS Sir,— / Awakening at last to a realisation of the absurdity of littering up its parks and gardens with junk, the Manchester Corporation recentlj decided to remove all war trophies from its public reserves, considering them to be useless and repulsive. It is an example that could well be folio-wed in Auckland. Not only in the city, but also across the water at North Shore, it appears to be the practice to litter up all open spaces with obsolete scrap iron. Wherever green grass and flowers are allowed to grow it seems i gun must alga be planted. .Thg obsolete

engines of war on the Marine Farade at Devonport are bad enough, but they fade into insignificance compared with the dump at Albert Park. It is a question which calls neither for jingoistic cant nor anti-militaristic argument, but plain common sense. These ghastly reminders of human slaughter serve no useful purpose. If of any practical u ® e —that is the killing of men—they should be in the barracks. If not, in the museum or on the scrap heap. But, whatever is done with them, let us at least clear our parks of this unseemly and unsightly rubbish. BELLONA. WAITING FOR A MATCH Sir, — There is trouble brewing in the Walpoua Forest. With seme friends I motored over the newly-made road on Sunday and we were appalled at the dangerous conditions existing there Dying beside the road, which runs through the finest part of the forest, is the best tinder I have ever seen, just waiting for some careless motorist to a ' v ; ax match. Trees have been felled and undergrowth cut away, but » of the debris lies in the tangle of fern on either side of the A match would set up a blaze the an' unlesa ; there were someone on the spot, would sweep through the forest at an alarming rate. Dur ng the of n ?he A Wa m *“* 3S « the rest of the Auckland Province. the n ?n d H n £. al i y L sir ’ 1 understood that the road had been carefully planned to go past the best of the trees in hardlv^think 1 may be wron «- but 1 xiaraiy think so. At nrpcont magnificent kauri hundreds of thousands of'feet of Tim? tvfl’ Iylng beside the road am.on» match WhiCh 1S Waitin S for tha? Symonds Street. DILLy -DALLY. moth-eaten ballads Sir, — A few letters have appeared in The ® u " .°n .‘Moth-Eaten Ballads” and a?ToT lm t nS ° f the class of songs sung Of th? rtS ’ musica l evenings, etc. One Of the correspondents, “Fed,” mentions two, “A Perfect Day” and Jn*r f of°the a o t ld There are some of the old songs that will live for ever and be sung when others are forgotten, and I am sure that they are far “TL i i Way J’ ette V han f wa ddle such as Horsey Keep Your Tail Up,” “Lady S olll £ B Y ° ur , Eyes,” “Moonbeams Kiss Her For Me," and such like. Divas like Melba, Calve, Galli Curci Clara Butt often sing one or two of the old songs for encores, and they are appreciated by the musical public. ver Y a & e * as your correspondent * e<i should know, a few good songs are turned out as well as a large number of second-rate ones that catch the public taste for : a yhils, latter