LOCAL TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 6

LOCAL TRANSPORT.

A FABLE RECALLED. (To the Editor.) There seems to be quite a number nf «,i----liards" among the critics of this unWi * board and its troubles. When a nrivaf 9 pany held the running it ran the "aunti! 0 *; trenchant criticism of both citizen an* Jof banite and the argument that the V " should be owned and controlled "by flip oncer ? was the dominant note. When that a turn took place by the acquisition of thl cern by the city and the citizen critic becaw quiescent, the suburbanite then found • ances. Something was wrong with road Bn * V " tenance, time-tables and stopping pi ac mam " wrong, services not quick enough,''and the 2 took another variation, i.e., the concern sh2 be owned by the ratepayers of the whole port area. So, like the father and son inT 4 famous Aesop fable, they must mount !i donkey together, and they are now on all going strong and the unfortunate animal? doing his best considering all the circumstance® ' and the further complications that have ari™ >' since the journey started. The. latest crifi says "criticism would not be levelled at t Transport Board were that party a bnv reproach " Of course not. Tliat is obvious and will apply to most parties, too. "Harmonium'' opens with the wrong chord. The donkey 1 the fable was finally carried by father and son, and surely that somewhat approach^' v pandemonium. Specious or rash statement, accomplish nothing'. Let the father sit nwr' the head and the boy near the tail and I belWo the gallant animal will get to the journey's end. I know only one or two of the Transport Board members personally, but I have closely watched all their careers in the city, and on that showing, as keen, honest, straight bus! ness men, legally in their .present position and doing their best, they deserve the cordial sunport of all citizens at the present juncture MORE TONE AND LESS" NOISE.