OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

SOLDIERS AND DANCES (To the Editor.) Sir-May I congratulate the Maori Women's War Auxiliary on charging soldiers only a shilling admission to its dance. As the soldiers “make” a dance, one hopes that other local institutions will follow suit. There can be no excuse advanced by those conducting a dance that they cannot afford to let the soldiers in for a shilling.—l am, etc.. WOMAN WAR WORKER. Masterton, March 6. TRANSPORT OF SHEEP I (To the Editor.) Sir,—All the talk of late is the shortage of benzine, but having been a. stock buyer for fifty years I took a stroll down to the Ewe Fair while drafting operations were in progress. I was astounded to see 22 transport lorries arriving with ewes, some from as far away as Pongaroa, and others from a distance of one and a half days’ drive. In my day very heavy fat sheep had to be driven over roads roughly metalled. Many of the ewes transported to the fair are only one day’s drive to the saleyards by road. It seems to me that in many cases the wealthy farmer has got control of the benzine at the present time. Why should the small struggling farmer, farming expensive land, be penalised. ~s his stock is just as valuable to the 'Hate,—Yours, etc., PIONEER BUYER.