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POINTS FROM LETTERS
Rnural Production
From "Ex-Farmer":—The suc- <*>
cesses of the country shows this
year have been most heartening
to all of us who give thought to
after-war rural interests. In spite
of transport difficulties and severe
shortage of man and woman power
for preparing, carrying, and stag
ing exhibits, all has been well done,
and attendance figures have told
of the appreciation of the pub
lic. Perhaps from all the troubles
the war has brought to us we hare
learned the necessity of greater
co-operation in advancing the
prosperity of an industry or a dis
trict. We have now £he follow
ing bodies, which include many of
the virile and practical'elements of
most districts,- and which, if they
work in unison, can do great good
without unduly leaning on the
Government, viz.. the Chamber of
Rural Industries, the Advisory
Board of Agriculture, district
agricultural committees. CWA So
ciety, Agricultural Bureaus, and
show societies.
S.A/S Motor Body Industry
From "Just Too Bad":—The op
ponents of the recent referendum
proposals are about to be given a
painful lesson. South Australia
is threatened with the loss of its
great motor body industry, and
under the present Federal Con
stitution can do nothing about it
liivate enterprise can please it
self as to where it -will conduct
its business, and we are now faced
with the prospect of fierce Inter
state competition for the great in
dustries of Australia. It is amus
ing to see Mr. Playford pleading
with the Commonwealth to save
this State from the loss of its
greatest industry when he and his
party strove mightily in the refer
endum campaign to deny the Com
monwealth the power to do so.
Control Of Commonwealth Bank
From "Shopkeeper": — Federal
Ministers who are contemplating a
new policy for the Commonwealth
Bank should bear in mind what
Mr. Nash, Minister for Finance
in the New Zealand Labor Gov
ernment, said when he was in
Sydney:—"While a lot has been
said against the trading banks, it
has been our experience that they
ire doing a much better job than
we ourselves could do." No one
ienles that the Commonwealth
Bank should act as a central bank
so.long as It is free from political
sontroL In addition to that, it
is In the interests of everyone who
las to deal with a bank that he
should have the right to go to
whichever bank he Wtps. We know
jy experience that there are bet
ter ways than having to deal with
inly the one Government depart
nent.
Preference To Ex-Soldiers
. From- G. E. Tates, 20 Buller
street. Prospect:—Mr. Maktn is re
potted to have said, in reply to
Senator Mcleay in reference to
tbe principle of preference to re
turned soldiers, "that a firm in
struction had been issued to all
factories that where all aspects
rare equal the management had
the discretionary right to retain
the ex-servicemen." If this is the
:ase, Mr. Makln might enquire
into the circumstances of my
tacit dismissal from Salisbury
ifter two and a half years' ad
mitted satisfactory service.
Control Of Bats
From "Chicks":—Thank you,
Mr. li. H. Day, for your wise and
sensible letter. Rats and fowls
do not go together. I worked in
a leading city restaurant, miles
iway from a fowl yard, yet it was
over-run with rats. If a rat should
come in my yard my cat would
soon put an end to it. If people
Scept a good cat instead of a lap
dog there would be far fewer rats.
Fathers' Association
From WJSJB.:—Early in July
last the Lord Mayor of Adelaide
convened a public meeting at the
Town Hall for the purpose of
forming a Fathers' Association.
The RSL, in turn, was requested
at that meeting- to ask its sub
branches to call public meetings
through their respective corpora
tions and councils. I understand
that at Colonel Light Gardens the
RSA sub-branch wrote to the
Garden ' Suburb Commissioner
requesting him personally to call
a meeting in behalf of the pro
posal. I trust that this matter
will receive proper attention.
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