OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 8

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

MILK ZONING (To the Editor.) Sir,—lt is a month since I wrote regarding milk zoning, when the system had just been introduced in Masterton, and I am still as dissatisfied as ever with the quality of milk supplied, while it is only a shame the amount of cream I get for 6d in comparison with what I got previously when I could choose my own supplier. I notice there have been several letters concerning the matter, and a statement from the local member of Parliament, which I presume he intended to be the coup de grace. I have, however, reached a stage when I am impervious to “wool-drawing” over my eyes, and the tale told by Mr Robertson is quite different to that of several milk vendors. This is borne out by the fact that the zoning system has since been introduced in Napier, and you will have seen the instance of the vendor in Christchurch who wondered what all the fuss was about when he had been delivering by a horse milk van for years, and was promptly told he had to join in the zoning system with horse and cart! I said our experience in Masterton was the thin end of the wedge of socialistic bungling of a Government which seems bent on trying everything once, regardless of cost, but apparently the wedge is getting thicker and almost developing into a bludgeon. In any case all those correspondents who wrote to you got terribly mixed up with milk, benzine, golf, price and profits of- the vendors—spare us from such a mixture when the quality of the milk is enough to put up with! But this introduction of the various angles of the question is quite apart from my original main complaint, viz: the liberty of the subject. To those folk who can’t see past the end of their nose, may I explain that it means briefly what England is spending millions of pounds a day on, what the men of our own kith and kin and the pride of this Dominion are laying down their lives for, what you and I .and all those loyal subjects think it is worth while fighting for, the freedom of speech, thought, action, and all those things that go towards a decent, honest life.

While this is being done our Government is introducing legislation by “Gazette” and other procedures and in many ways stifling the life and the commerce of this land of ours, and gradually breaking down by questionable means the liberty of the subject. I am thankful that many previous followers of the Labour movement, like myself, are waking up tb the Socialistic ideologies of our book theorists and spoilers of the land we hold sd dear, and I hope the day is not far distant when the present misled guiders of our destiny will, per medium of the ballot box, be bulldozed into oblivion, and as a worker it will give me great pleasure to help in the push overboard. Since Mr Robertson introduced the benzine question, I would like to ask him through you, Sir, if he would tell me how many ships laden with benzine have arrived on our shores this last 12 months and have, through the inglorious orgy of spending a forty mijlion pound balance in London by inexperienced book theorists on sociology, been turned away through lack of foreign currency, and sent on to Australia or elsewhere? “There’ll always be an England, May this fair land we love so well In dignity and freedom dwell.” Yours, etc., “ANOTHER MUTT.” Masterton. September 4.