Ballantyne’s fire book

The Press, December 31, 1983. p. 12.

Sir,—As a sister of one of the 41 victims who perished in Ballantyne’s fire on November 18, 1947 I am very distressed to see a sizable advertisement in "The Press" today for a book on the disaster by C. C. Walker. Who is he that he hopes to make money out of others' misfortune? All that had to be written was recorded in the newspapers at the time, and for the many months of anguish relatives suffered while the commission of inquiry was held afterwards. Some mothers never recovered from the shock and grief and no relative wants to be reminded of that terrible day when their loved ones did not come home from work.

- Yours, etc., M. I. MAWSON.
December 28 1983.