OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS

WIN THE .WAR FIRST (To the Editor) Sir.—May I, in reply to the local R.S.A., express my disapproval of their intimation that if a returned soldier does not pay his subscription he has to return the badge, because the R.S.A. says it does not belong to him? I call this mean and contemptible, and a slur on the returned soldier. I, for one, cannot pay my subscription. I do not draw a pension, nor can I get on Social Security. The doctors class me. as fit and the Pensions Department tell me I am fit for permanent work, which is all wrong. Let the R.S.A. pay our subscriptions out of the Poppy Daj’ Fund. In conclusion may I appeal to the brave lads who have fought twenty times harder and faced worse conditions and severer hardships than we did—l suggest to them that when they come back they form an association of their own, separate from us, and they will get a square deal. Never mind the badge—win the war first. —I am. etc., RETURNED SOLDIER. Masterton. June 19.

THE RAILWAY YARDS (To the Editor) . Sir.—l read in your columns that the member for Masterton. Mr J. Robertson, has been informed by the Acting-Minister of Railways (Mr Nash.) that on account of the goods traffic dealt with at the Masterton Railway Station they are going to provide verandahs over the doorways of the goods shed and to extend the office by ten feet in order to make working conditions more comfortable for the staff. Well, Sir, I happened to be trucking cattle at the trucking yards at the Masterton Station and I think it is time something was done to improve the cleaning yard, for it is a disgrace. In view of the conditions the man cleaning the trucks is working under it is no wonder wo have the fly trouble coming from the cleaning yard and I say he deserves credit for the way in« Which he is cleaning the trucks. Sir, it is just about time the Railways Department took some steps in making the cleaning yards different to what they are at the present time, thus making the conditions better for people who truck stock and also for the man cleaning the trucks and everybody concerned about the fly trouble. 1 would like our member for Masterton to go and see for himself the Masterton trucking and cleaning yard. Thanking you, Sir, for your valuable space. —I am, etc.. DISGUSTED. Masterton. Juno 18.