GLASGOW'S STREET RAILWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 21 June 1917, Page 8

GLASGOW'S STREET RAILWAYS.

(To the Editor.l Si,-.—A very interesting and unique event lias recently taken place in connection with the" above, which shows what <an be done when such undertakings are run for the benefit of the community. Allow mc to very briefly put a few of the main features before your readers. During the twenty-two years just passed the people of Glasgow have rendered to themselves through their city fathers a splendid public service, paving their employees good wages and reducing fares to less than a halfpenny a mile, and at the same time giving the world an object lesson as to what can be done when the people wish it, and are in earnest about it being done. Threequarters of a million pounds have been put to the common pood of the city on the Clyde, and the climax is now reached when this huge undertaking stands free of all capital liabilities, an asset, the untrammelled property of its people. All this has been brought about by a sinking fund. We are now left this grand lesson for others to take heart by. and to cheer those who believe in the future of municipal enterprise. —1 am, etc.. PROGRKSS.