CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 14 October 1911, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

| [To TKe Edttorj t Sir, — lam no Latin scholar—-ovi- ! dently "Plater" is—.but having comjpleted a University course in English, I thought I .could paraphrase most passages, in that language. I s ' 'admit miys&lf beaten, however. T6 me there is not an atom, of senßfe' in "Plater's" last letter, read it how I may. After -reading it ten times, I concluded it was humorous, but 'after another ■ couple of readings. I' thought it couldn't possibly .be, but it might be sarcastic. What is this "world's atlas" that will have to be ■altered? An atlas, nry dictionary tells me, is "a collection of maps." 19 lit (then a- collection of maps of the worHP Or dice© "Pater 7 ' mean just simply "the map of the world"? I 'wonder rtvhy it will have to be altered 3 iLs it not possible for New Zealand to change 'her mean time from one meridian of longitude to- another without upsetting the map of the world? A3! clocks, tell a "palpable die," as he terms, it, even mow," except those in- places on, the meridian from which the wean time of tine 'icouintry they are situate in is taken, as ifor example .Greenwich. Ido not suggest, <Sir, that I can save even a penny by altering one clock—especially any belonging to "Pater"— but I do say that -*> is- to save money and labour that the official" docks-'of the dominion will be altered instead x>f altering the times of commencing work, etc. If "Pater" lived in the country, and had to go into town to his work by a train .which! left a,t 8..3Q a.m., and this new system/ came into* (force by which he had -to go to •wjork at 8 a.m. instead of 9 p.m.J and the (timetable was not altered, he would feel silly .wlhen he got to the station to go by the train" at 7.30 and (found it wiaa time-tabled to go, and' > actually went, at B.3o—it must leave lat its .tdme-tablLed time of departure.' iQan he not see that if the time for isbarting work wias made an hour earlier, the timeHliabllie w»uld have to be altered if the trains, were to lit in. . with other alterations? if he had a notice on his- door, ''Official hours 9 ia.ni. to 5 p.m.," an<l his hours began and ended 1 an hour earlier, would ho not have to alter this ito 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. ? These alterations wontd not be necessary if/it were the clocks that .were altered. Thanking yon in anticipation for ®o much, .valuable space.— 1 am, etc., FILTUS.