Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 10

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

ELSIE WALKER CASE Sir, — What a clamour there was at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Surely the Minister of Justice mav be presumed to know his job better than the man in the street. If Mr. Wilford has decided not to bring legislation down this session, we can rest assured lie has some perfectly good reason for his stand. F.G. ONE-ROOMED FLATS Sir,— Has officialdom run mad, or why this little/ faith in ordinary human nature? Had those people who are raising their voices in protest visited any large centre, they would have found flats universal. In Vancouver I visited friends in flats; in San Francisco all the friends I visited—people prominent in the artistic and educational world —resided in flats; and I also visited Marlborough Mansions, where there was a series of oneroomed flats, with self-contained bath and all conveniences, and there was no breath of scandal attached to any of the residents. I have latelv received a letter from a friend in London extolling her one-roomed flat, ana she is a professional woman. What is really the stumbling block? Is it insufficient air space, or the little brief authority in which our civic administrators are clad? Why stress ® “ I ° ral aspect? Surely a conscientious caretaker could be relied upon to need out undesirables? When mv sister was staying in Laris, all the inmates of the residential flat in which she dwelt were under the eye of the old converge or doorkeeper, who was extreme]} strict as to the conduct of the inmates. PROGRESS. INCREASE IN TRAM FARES Sir. I understand that it is the intention of the Transport Board to increase fiom the 6th proximo, the price of all section concession tram tickets by 3d „°!'. one section and 6d for four sections, “fl,. so on - This is preposterous, and will come as a shock to many. Ihe business man and the professional man have their own motor-cars aro unaffected and disinterested' I ins new move is simply placing a super-tax upon the worker. It is foremg the worker into the city and slums, lno Transport Board forgets its obligation to the suburban resident. The city tax-payer should wake up and

demand an inquiry. Waste is - obvious everywhere. There are 35 ticket inspectors for the city tramways. Whv U 1,?., Ra e Wa ?, 7 Department requires only “?eefor -P l , l ® wllole of the Auckland distiict. These ticket inspectors cost ? a ne £l2 - 300 per annum of out eood money, and what do they • Perhaps, at the most, £IOO a jeai, and yet It is said our city concerns are run by business men. It is becoming increasingly difficult to lecogmse any real business acumen in then- policy and actions. The people of before 1 U , °’ JW demand a full inquiry m tramth‘: nS aDy £ " rther --eases ______ A.M.R. BACHELOR FLATS Sir,— bachelm- <li ‘« R | OVei ' several objections to °3 ? Jhefr nt wiv f e ra”J f” “if. '-'use Z naturally thinif thaH^our 0 bLFT'' 3 cannot be trusted in flats tm? 1 lors they are in quarters^ of the^own°Tnd ° u ‘ of * h ® se private houses the bettlr most°unreasonaW e aU uft 5 are- - retain tenants for their high-priced a£e P ?- l ?"‘ Q u ‘te a number of persons are living in rented houses beyond So^d^atfuT^h^rfTea^™ OBSERVER. “THE DEAN’S DILEMMA” Sir,— to teach the Bible to^punfl s P in P ° Sal and**the mtjorßy ol’actL-eT 6^11^ being wen^knowm^re to elaborate upon them! Manvc 'u” b^b l y, r ®th^ t th^ , re r is re no : , foelin " p”children being schooled in ldfalth referenda/ * “SThU". “j? quietness afVeT doing are intensely opposed to'this teach in? for divers reasons. Therefore.at £

stag© it might prove a “stitch in time' to remark upon two items of general news interest. The first dealt with tho admission of Dr. Simpson, Dean o*. Peterborough, that he does not believe, and has never believed, in th© Biblical story of the Flood; this admission being made to a Bible Society meeting. The second deals with th© far more startling outburst of Can on T. A. Lacey, at the “Worcester Diocesan Conference—that he could keep silence no longer on the fact that W. finds it impossible to regard the Bibte as one book, or as the Word of God; that “there is nothing in either Old or New Testaments to suggest why should be so called,” etc. There are, in our midst, many enun* ent and philosophical scholars deny the authenticity and inspiration of the whole Bible, and now we startled by the phenomenon of in* c :' leetual pillars of the Church finding *• “impossible to keep silence any longer —their reasonings reacting upon their emotions to so great an extent. Sureb th© exponents of the Bible-in-Schoois movement should hesitate —and ponaei deeply. IL PENSEROSCS