MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE.
. (To the Editor.) Sir, —As a ratepayer I think it is time we made a- protest re the money that is being wasted in running the Muncipal fish shops. As the year's loss is over £4000 it is only right for the ratepayers to know where the loss occurs. If I remember rightly the previous year's working showed somewhere about the same loss and the total is over £8000 in two years. Who does this benefit? Do the city pay more for fish than the Sanford Company? Or is it in overhead expenses? I think the ratepayers should wish that it close down at once. Then there is the leak»Tt "i the tpm cars. As a frequent traveller on them I see many cases of fares uncollected and I have myself held my ticket in readiness from the bottom of Queen Street over two sections, and then to reach the collector should haveto push through a crowded ear or else leave without paying. Notwithstanding the inspectors the game still goes on. Haven't the ratepayers sufficient interest in municipal affairs to protest against this unbusinesslike procedure? Let us for the future be more alive and take a greater interest in municipal aifairs and get things run on a more efficient and economic basis.—T am, etc. ONE RATEPAYER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 256, 26 October 1923, Page 8
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218MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 256, 26 October 1923, Page 8
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