Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 8

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

TENTS ON BEACHES

Sir.Can any of your readers inform me if it is permissible to erect a small tent —umbrella or frame —to sit in, on the beaches at Milford and Cheltenham, or are there any regulations and bylaws against it? W.A.S.

STDFFY TELEPHONE BOXES

Sir, —• I wish to support your correspondent “Phoney” in his protest against selfishness in the use of public telephones. Notices in some of the boxes warn users of a five minutes’ limit, but apparently there is no method of “cutoff,” or else the authorities do not bother. Also. I would suggest that smoking in telephone boxes be strictly prohibited. They are stuffy at the best of times, but, when reeking with tobacco fumes and littered with cigarette butts, they are absolutely nauseating. Hero a chance for the new 1 Government to give us better service. PHONEY 11. SMOKING ON VEHICULAR FERRY Sir, — As a constant reader of The Sun and one who has observed from time to time the much-needed reforms that it has been the means of instigating, I would like you to do your utmost to see that the dangerous practice of smoking on the vehiculai’ ferry is stopped. This morning I noticed some half-a-dozen passengers (motordrivers), on the 8 o’clock ferry from Devonport, standing on the muchoiled and inflammable deck smoking to their hearts’ content. A gentle breeze was blowing. Had a spark ignited the ship, which was loaded with over a dozen vehicles—in which were women and children—the result in mid-stream would have been calamitous. J.T.M..

HOUSEWIFE’S BURDEN

Sir.— If it is essential that butter prices here should be raised in sympathy with the price received on the London market, then who am I to protest against the economic factors regulating the price of our breakfast table? But, sir, in the case of my grocer, the latest rise in the retail butter price was made so indelicately, and with such unworthy haste, that I cannot

DANGER AT CROSSINGS

MOTOR-DRIVERS’ IHJT¥ CORONER URGES CAUTION (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The need for observing that section of the Railway Act requiring vehicles to slow down to 10 miles an hour when approaching railway crossings was emphasised by the coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to-day at the inquest on Satuel Thompson, a single man of 2*>,

help venturing a word of protest. In Wednesday morning’s cablegrams the rise on the Home market was announced. After breakfast that day, my grocer came with the daily provisions, and passed on the rise to me. "But,” I reminded him, “no rise in price has been advertised or announced.” His reply to that was: “It was in this morning’s paper that butter has gone up in London.” My grocer is going to see that, whatever happens, he will get his pound of llesh from his customers, no mattei* what creed of delicacy or decency he shatters in the process. It might have meant a few pence to him to wait until the rise was announced, but lie would have avoided getting “offside” with many housewives. I now* view his approach with suspicion, fearing that ho might again "put one over” on me. In any case, sir, I never can understand why the price of butter in New Zealand, where the -product is made, should be the same as it is on tho London market, after it has been transported 12,000 miles. Perhaps some of the farmers—or possibly my* grocer—will be able to explain this. HARD-UP HOUSEWIFE. THE CREATION Sir.— In regard to “A.E.C. s” letter, it seems to me that he is as one-sided as he avers Mr. Rimmer is. The account of the creation in Genesis i. is obviously a general one, the reason being to my way of thinking in order that man may get a general idea of the system of things, without wading through a ffew dozen text-books. Why ho should have a general idea is, of course, obvious, and in passing I would like to ask “A.E.C-” how long tho Bible would have Listed had it been written in the' form of a modern book on the subject? As to the discrepancies in tho two accounts, the second is, even on its face value, a more intimate account. dealing with the situation as affecting man himself. Your correspondent say*s that the universe is apparently mentioned as an afterthought. I am inclined to think that it w'ould be—as far as man is concerned. However, the heavenly bodies very probably would not appear till some tirpe after the light became apparent, owing to the fact that the heavily charged atmosphere was not conducive to good visibility. Regarding the immense advances of science in late years. I would remind “A.E.Cthat science, as it advances, confirms many Bible accounts which years ago were considered impossible ;ind contradictory. Seek and y’e shall find! STUDENT. who was killed in a crossing accident on November 22. The lorry driver, Thomas Crawford, said he would not see the train until 20ft from the line. A strong northeasterly wind and the noise of a coal cart he was passing had deadened the sound of the whistle. He swung the truck round to the left, the train striking the back, where deceased was sitting. A hedge eight feet high obscured the view in the direction from which the train had come. The engine driver, Herbert Norman Stokes, said he had blown his whistle twice and was slowing down to let two men jump off, at the time of the collision. The train was pulled up in its I own length.