OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1943, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

AIR FORCE EXAMINATIONS .(To the Editor) Sir, —I was astonished to read in yesterday’s “Times-Age” that an Air Force candidate who had recently passed his examination for “Leading Aircraftman” is (to quote exactly the wording of report) “the only candidate in the North Island who had ever got through the examination at the first attempt.” What an extraordinary and incorrect statement! _ How is one person capable of knowing the examination results conducted by the R.N.Z.A.F.? , . x It is surely an insult to the intelligence of the many young men (including quite a number from this town and district), who have sat for, and successfully passed, this examination “at the first attempt,” and who have been serving at home and overseas for some time. I have beside me, as I write, a group photograph of R.N.Z.A.F. candidates, taken after they had successfully passed the L.A.C. examination “at the first attempt” (and in which my son, who also passed with honours, is smiling happily at me from the back row).. The photograph contains twen-ty-five young men —the majority of them belonging to the North Island. Does the fact that they passed the L.A.C. exam at a South Island air station make any difference? This was only one small section of the candidates who sit for this examination every few months, regularly, but results are not published. The boys are content to ‘get on with the job.”—l am, etc., “FAIR PLAY.” TOWN PLANNING (To the Editor.) Sir —After reading Mr Mabson’s address on Thursday to Rotary members it occurs to me to suggest a further means by which congestion of motor traffic in Queen Street could be relieved, either as an alternative to or in conjunction with other proposed schemes. My suggestion is to extent either Dixon Street through to Te Ore Road, or Chapel Street, through to the new road between the bridges, or even both. If this were done, through traffic could be diverted along these streets thus reducing the traffic in Queen Street itself—l am etc., INTERESTED.