OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1943, Page 3

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

REHABILITATION & WORKS (To the Editor) Sir,—With the greatest of interest I read your two common sense leaders on the above subjects, also Mr Cunningham’s suggestion of a Progress League or a like body. The Government of this, like other countries, realises that during the transition period after the ’ war they must prepare now for the rehabilitation of our returned men. They know also, with the experience after the close of the last war, that it is impossible to absorb these men immediately back into industry, with the result they have set up the present Rehabilitation Board, a committee of which has been formed in Masterton. Now, it does seem to me that unless the Wairarapa as a whole wakes up, and forms a body as suggested by Mr Cunningham and fosters a co-ordinated, long-term plan embodying the cultural, social and economical progress of the district, the Wairarapa will once again be left in the background, and the big Government votes for public works, including town-planning, will go elsewhere.—Yours, etc., L. ROBINSON. Masterton, March 3.