Citizens Say—

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 8

Citizens Say —

AVONDALE AFFAIRS Sir,— I woud like to know why ever the mile starting post at the Avondale course is situated where it is, as it is almost impossible for a horse to win from an outside position. Starting a race on such a bend is most unfair to owners and stops people from betting as well. A horse that draws an outside position in a mile race needs to have double the pace of Gloaming, otherwise he is cut right out when the back straight is reached. Every horse that goes to the barrier should have an equal chance, not be penalised through faulty course construction. If Avondale wants to be made an up-to-date course other arrangements need attention. After the delay and bad start in the Juvenile Handicap on Saturday a walk-up start should be tried when starting green two-year-olds. It is like trying to prevent a filly from shaking, asking young horses to stand at a barrier. Avondale should wake up and give patrons a fair run. AN AUSSIE. BORROWING ABROAD Sir,— A most egregious error is being made by the Reform Party in taking the excess of exports over imports as a true indication of economic well-being. And the Labour Opposition has not the ability to realise and expose the erjror. Among invisible exports and imports are those of which no account can be taken, and of which an excess of imports over exports is to the Dominion’s enrichment. Money carried on the person is a single and important case in point. Also the ability of a party to borrow money abroad is most important. And the fact that Sir Joseph Ward can borrow more at lower cost to the ratepayer than Mr. Coates is the acid test of statesmanship applied. But what could Mr. Holland borrow, and at what rates? Labour is not in the picture at all from an economic point of view. The best it has to offer is a State bank, in which no capitalist would deposit, under a Socialist regime. Now Reform is for raising credit locally. But again Sir Joseph outgenerals Mr. Coates by his policy of borrowing abroad in such a manner as to facilitate sales abroad. Local enterprise can utilise local capital. If it cannot use all, better to invest money abroad and obtain credit from buyers of our produce than to clog the machinery of international trade, upon which our prosperity mainly depends. If democracy is not to prove an abject failure, the working man must cease fighting the capitalist system as such, and realise that capital and labour are both indispensable. J. G. HUGHES. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Sir,— I should be glad of space to reply .to your correspondent, Mas. Norman

(To the Editor.)

Burton, whose letter appeared in your issue of October 23. He says that “according to Christian Science sin does not really exist.” This is not a correct statement. Christian Science teaches that sin is not of God’s creating, any more than is sickness. They realise that sin certainly does obtain dominion over mortal man and that it must be overcome and destroyed. This does not seem the impossible task that it has been in the past to many of us when we gain the understanding which Christian Science gives, that because it is not of God, it has no law behind it—nothing that can make it formidable, no reality in the eternal sense of things. Our Master Christ Jesus knew this when He said: “Every plant that My Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.” He knew so clearly that the man that His Heavenly Father had made was sinless perfect, whole, that the false sense of things, sin and sickness, was utterly destroyed, just as a lie is destroyed when we learn the truth. It must be understood that Christian Science makes a clear and emphatic distinction between the real and eternal and that which appears real to the physical senses. In the Christian Science text-book, “Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures.” by Mary Baker Eddy, is written: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appeared to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.” fPage 476.) When we learn to know our Heavenly Father as Christ Jesus did, and to recognise His work—spiritual man—then we, too, will understand the impossibility of a sinful sick mortal being the child of God —then we, too, will heal all manner of sickness and sin as He did. ANN P. HEWITT. Christian Science Committee on Publication. THE HARBOUR BRIDGE Sir.— The Prime Minister, answering a question at Albany, on Saturday last, said that he was not opposed to the proposal to build a bridge across the Auckland Harbour. He was, however, against the Government’s being asked to provide the money for it just now, because the country has too much other work in hand. He was opposed, also, to raising the money by an art union, or by premium bonds, adding. “Surely the country can afford to pay for its public works.” This is a seeming contradiction. If the country can pay for its public works, why not go on with building the bridge? If the Government has too much on hand just now, it cannot pay for its public works as the need becomes urgent: it can only postpone, and again postpone, and judging by experience and the Prime Minister’s utterances, the bridge will be relegated to the dim and distant future. Accepting the statement that the Government has too many public works on hand just now to finance the bridge, many will welcome a plain, practical answer to these questions: What is the objection to (1) raising the money by an art union? or (2) bv the issue of premium bonds? <£) to

giving permission to private enterprise to erect the bridge? (4) to setting up a bridge board? By 1 or Z the investors would pay. By 3 or 4 the users would. The Government would not be asked for a penny. Why should the country pay when there is no need for it to do so? A taxpayer in, say. Invercargill, ought not to ne called upon to pay for a bridge tu benefit a citizen of, say', Whangarei. THE MAN IN THE STREET. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS “Spotlight.”—You are misinformedThe canvassers work during the l*f j three days only, and are paid £* * for the period, which is cunsideraDi.more than the 12s a day you suggest.—Ed. The Sun. Subscriber. —The McLachlan memcria column is placed in Cornwallis Tamon Manukau Harbour, close to the heads. —Ed. The Sun. “Edgekene.”—The result appeared o« October 31. page 17.— Editor, Ttte Sun.