TEE TRAMWAY LOAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 6

TEE TRAMWAY LOAN.

Doe. P. James realise the harm that he * duini: by endeavouring to decry the loan? There are hundreds of men <,nt <fl work in this city today, and jnst lwcanse fl» lrans].ort Board ha-, very v i M -lv dwided m to attempt all the w<., k> at once P J«J; opposes tl!e loan and ill doi,,jr (0 iinders m , ?n-ss and km» men uneu.i.loyeu. I sa T luck t.» the rran-jHirt Board. It ha« a diffia* job and it seen,, to me i, i> Uiekliß-ft well. lh<- leader m your !->„<• last Thnrsdji -ii!.j«ir;- the loan, and that i, a lead I ef tainly intend to follow. W1..-:, X ] te time con,™ for the next loan. 1 will M,p iH , lt it, too, w let us take one step at a t:;no.

>O.\ CKOAKEE.

Your correspondent P. Jame- is just anotler wet blanket. The Tran-j-ort IWd & m wimloih, and it- very readable loan proposal arc Mij.j.ortp.l iinaniim-ur.lv l.y tiie Press, bit this is not satisfactory to P. .fame*. He would have the hoard ni-h into all the extensions at once, re«ardles> of financial and labour conditions. I have very carefully followed tie transport controversy, ami. were it not sesifm, I would have been amu.-ed at a lot of lie criticism. We have a tramways manager and staff whose lives have been devote to truiiport.. and a Tran»|iort Board composed of gentlemen of lon« exj.erienee. yet it is -often su««:e>ted that the opinion of pome anonymoni, "exjtert' , is of more value than that of & board and its ofik-crs. EPSOM.

P. .Tame? says that experts will not Iβ taken in by Mr. Alhini's statement that the second extensions will l>e commenced in twe years' time. According to the "Star" report, Mr. Alhnn said that the first extensions wonld be completed in about sixteen months from flu e«»inmeii«-ei:i«-::t <if the work, and a reference Iβ the tramway officials confirms this. We iav« heard a lot from outsiders, and I think it is hiph time more hee<3 na> paid to the persons who are responsible for our civic activities. I am a ratepayer ...f Mount Albert and I skfl certainly support the loan proposals, because I realise that the sooner we pet op with the job the sooner the extensions will he dome. Let us do away with foolish parochialism, which d<>e> no one any good, but harms erarone. Any sensible perwn knows that all tie work cannot reasonably W done at once, se let us jiet riplit In-hind the Transjwrt Bowd and help it to do it- job. Incidentalr, tie carrvni'j of the loan \\ill put manr of «DT fellow men into job*.. MOUNT ALBEKT RATEPAYER.

P. <•. Hose al-o writes tuj»porting the loan propo>aK.