Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 8

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

WHY BOYS LEAVE FARMS Sir, — I would like to tell the Hon. E. Newman that it was not sport-loving but conditions which brought me to town again. I am 20 years old and I was out of work three months, so I got a job on a farm in the King Country. I had to start work at 4 a.m. (that means 3.30 now that daylight-saving is the law) and work till dark. I had to milk, dig drains, cut gorse and do the one hundred and one other things that have to he done on a farm My wages were £1 and found. If the Government could fix wages and hours for farm work there would not be so many farm hands coming to town. FARM HAND. BROADCASTING SPORT Sir,— The IYA sports announcer at Auckland has been attacked by a “Pirate,’* and pirates generally are poor sports, so we must defend our announcer, as w© may not find another so able to* fill the position. His description of wrestling with the different falls and grips is most accurate, even to the name of grips and falls used in several styles of wrestling. He also has the gift of keeping listeners in touch with all the excitement taking place during each match. Without a description of the excitement caused, and the reason for that excitement, neither wrestling nor any other sports would be worth listening to on the air. The first time I heard an announcement of wrestling from IYA I was laid up in bed with a bad back; eight minutes later I was in the Town Hall, watching gentle John Kilonis wrestling. This completely cured all my ailments. Try this cure! OLD WRESTLER. DEVONPORT VEHICULAR FERRY Sir,— I would like to draw attention to the most unsatisfactory manner in which the vehicular ferry service to Devonport is conducted by those who hold the franchise, and are supposed to provide a public utility. The other evening w© visited friends on the Horth Shore. Shortly after ten o’clock they telephoned th© ferry company,

and asked what time the last vehicular ferry left Devonport for the city, and were informed 11.40 p.m., and that there was also one at 11 p.m. We arrived at the wharf at 10.55 p.m. After a considerable wait, we were informed to our amazement that there was no other boat that night, as the last one had left Devonport at 10.50 p m We were told that if we wished to get ove r we could do so by paying a special fee of 10s, and this in addition, to an extortionate ordinary charge of 4s already paid. As we were stranded with, the alternative of a drive of 40 or 50 miles to get home, it was a case of submitting to this preposterous demand. Incidentally, I was refused a receipt for this payment. It seems an extraordinary thing that the attractive North Shore should have to be isolated to motorists in the manner in which it is, especially as it is the city 1 playsrround adjacent to the 1 have learned that it is a fact that the last vehicular ferry leaves Devonport at three different times at least during the week, and at that at erratic times. No wonder the people want a bridge. The sooner the better. H- NATTRASS. I system is recognised as the 1 E in Au <*land.” claimed Mr A cials answer hundreds of inquiries re gardmg time-tables every day and It unlikely that the mistake T-af theU Th j> tmies quoted in the letter 1 l r, ™ and 11.40 p.m., are times of departure of passenger boats from Devonport^and *. that your correspondent in ‘vehicular* 1 * Sara^T SysTr' C on at SjgTdl&rSSt the *23* for any mistake being made for*’the 1 - OUTBOARDS Sir,— It is with some apprehension that I f® ad .pU u report of the annual meetmg of the New Zealand Power-Boat Association that outboard motor £raft are expected to have a bumper season Speakers referred to the value of theiPe (Continued in next column.)

boats in attracting members to clubs On© feels inclined to warn yachtsmea that they are far more likely to attract public opprobrium to the clubs who control their members so little. Your correspondent, sir, lives above tin cliffs skirting St. Mary’s Bay, a favour, it© haunt of these mosquito craft K is my usual experience to be wakened at the shriek of dawn, not only Suu« days, by the howl of high-speed engine* as the little boats sweep round the bay. Until unwelcome experience taught me to distinguish between the two potes, I used automatically to reach for a rolled-up newspaper when disturbed by the vibrating hum, think* ing it w r as made by the father of all mosquitoes. Now I know better, and all that I can do is lie back and have* private hate. Is it not possible for the engines to be fitted with silencertf Personally I should like to see the boat# at Motuihi or even farther away. ThjU is why hopes for a successful season among these craft—coupled with thi thought of the rusty dredge laboriously groaning each morning at the open* ing on St. Mary’s breakwater —fill nte with dismal forboding. AURORA* SUNDAY OBSERVANCE? Sir, — The Rev. Lawson Marsh denounce Jv the Devonport Borough Council Mii having- even that minimum of tolerant* sufficient to permit citizens the fri®* dom of amusing themselves on Sunday* He appears not only to desire the right of spending Sunday An . th© manne? pleasing to him (and by which b fl earns his livelihood) but also to havi the privilege of dictating to others ho* they shall epend their weekly holiday. A minister opposing the “secuhU v isation of the Sabbath” is as likely t* be partial as would a publican oppose* the Saturday afternoon closing ® hotels. Even on Ijis own religious grounds Mr. Marsh has no support. He that Sunday “was the gift of “J risen Christ to the world.” For tw information of readers will he plainly the book, chapter and verse m the New Testament wherein this or command was given? Hl* will be awaited with interest. * n copy of that volume I find to the contrary; that in John v, 18, the sought to kill Jesus because Ha 7 broken the Sabbath. In Mark Christ is reported to state that Sabbath was made for man 311(1 the reverse. See also Matthew’ - 9-13, and John v, S, a« to Hisatti , on the question. This attit ua > hostility to any special holy day i , r week was so interpreted and ena by Paul, the early fathers of the L and great leaders of Christian chUj j right up to recent times. The cl f some Christians that the populac o 8 either attend religious function Sunday or suffer the penalties oi dom and idleness has neither eco^ j nor moral support, and more ) for them, it cannot be 1 by an historical appeal to the w of their own faith. The now free of direct priestly dom ji and these indirect attempt® to their liberties are doomed to To prove this, it is only liece !'t lo 4f f m note how the few rational me K spending Sundays p'easantiy, ■ ions,Municipal Zoo. Sunday ** ?t entertainments, etc.., are thro ■ an eager populace.