OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

CAMERON & MEMORIAL PARK

(To the Editor).

Sir, —My answer to Mr F. C. Daniell’s letter is this: In my opinion, the Trust Lands Trust is, not the proper body to administer and control this Park. That is the proper function of the Masterton Borough Corporation. On the morning after the Trust made its decision some years ago to take .over the Park. I expressed to one of the Trust Lands Trustees the thanks of the municipality for doing what, in my opinion, it was our duty to do. I have always adhered to this. —Yours, etc., THOS. JORDAN. Masterton, May 22.

THE MILK QUESTION (To the Editor.) Sir,—l read with interest the letters of “Underpaid” and “Working Man” re the milk question. Dismissing Mr Preston’s plea for milk stands as weird, the whole thing boils down to this. We, the free citizens of Masterton, are forced by regulations to buy milk from certain vendors, who have drastically cut their overhead in the form of labour, running expenses and hours of labour, and we still have to pay 7d per quart, the same price as rules in Wellington. I for one am always glad to sample Wellington milk, which is really and truly cow’s milk, unadulterated with oxide of hydrogen, and, although pasteurised, greatly improves the taste of the cup that cheers. In Wellington we also get the correct measure, in a stoppered ,sterilised bottle, with no cigarette ash floating on the top. This by the way. To return to our local milk vendors. It was told to me by one man, whose wife's niece knew another man, that one milkman started work at 5.30 a.m. and finished at 9.30 a.m., four hours per day, a 28-hour week. This same man was said tp be making in the vicinity of £l6 per week, gross,' from which he only has to pay his boy running expenses of his car. I ask you, Mr Editor, is this a racket? It is surely high time we had a municipal milk supply in Masterton, and loud cheers for “Working Man” and “Underpaid” for bringing this matter up once more. —I am, etc., “UNDERFED.” Masterton, May 21.

PERRY STREET TREES

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I am pleased to see that the Borough Council has deferred final consideration of its proposed slaughter of every second tree in Perry Street and I hope that this will give our councillors an opportunity to think further before making their decision. I am sure that I am voicing the opinion of the residents of Perry Street when I say that they do not wish any interference with the trees and I go further and I suggest to our council that that is the view of the vast majority of the residents of Masterton.

Many a time, visitors to Masterton have commented upon the beauty of certain of our streets and it should be remembered that not only has Perry Street some _of the oldest and best grown and shaped trees in the borough but also that it is the street along which visitors by rail 1o Masterton usually come into the town. The chief objection voiced by certain councillors is that the street is made darker because of the trees, but during the worst of the winter months, that does not apply because of the annual pruning in the present month. On the other hand, the benefit by way of shade during the summer months is one which all residents in our street greatly appreciate. I hope, therefore, that the council will think better of the proposal and will decide to let the trees remain.—l am, etc., PERRY STREET RESIDENT. Masterton, May 22.