LETTERS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 8

LETTERS IN BRIEF.

"New Chum*' asks, with xcfcrcooeTto ' tho ro'xirud importation of -servants lrom Home: —"'W hat on earth do the ]KX>ple ot this country t-hi-nk the labour market- at Homo is like? The mm • who invented tho thousand -servant girls' farctj_must. bo very badly inform'en on the state ot affairs at Homo. Ho csiys a. paper published in & Lancashire. 1 town, witn a population of 28,000, cou- ' tainod more advert i-omonts for servant girls in one iitsuo than the local papera ' printed in a week. " Aqua" -suggefts that thero is an exceptional opportunity lor obtaining a substantial building lor tho purpostTof tepid swimming backs in tho Art Gallery connected with tho International Exliibition. ''Tho size ot tuo budding is all that coula be wished, and very littlo alteration would be neces- , ftary. It ia> situated near Victoria _ lake, so that tho overflow water from . thero oould bo utilised for the baths. f Tho warm water from the baths could r bo utilised for the purpose of heating * tho fine glass-house that adjoins tho " Art Gallery and add yet another at- ". traction to Christohurch." 5 "One of the Excluded" suggests tliat tho Horticultural Society should inclado a cla.ss for male exhibitors in tho deeorativo classes at tho Chrysanthemum Show. ".Business" points out that now tih-o tram service between Fitzgerald avenao ai:d Bealey avenue is discontinued, oiui-ne-ss-peopl© and others in the vicinity of tho Clcok Tower have no train coiuieo. f tion with Papanui, and, in onler to 1 catch a car proceeding in that din-©. J tion, must either walk to Colombo street or to the square. This, he says, is a _ most inconvenient arrangement. "At present there is a senrioo of cars from. ' tho fetation, via Colombo street, to \ Papanui, and the Addington oare run j to Bealey aveiwie, via Colombo street, » Hut why not run the Papanui cars up' - and down Mandhester street? The Mai> v Chester street cars, while eorvins. tho [ requirements of those whds© businrea j takes them to the neighibourhcod of th-a , Clock Tower, Lichfield street, • and , Cashel street, would equally well serve tha convenience cf nersons having business to transact in "Colombo street, and these passengers wishing to proceed to the station via Colombo street could do co cither by tbo Addingtoib or Coloinlbo street cars." Sometime ago, k he adds, tlhere was talk of the lliecar- " ton cars running through to Fitzgerald " avenue, and lie wants to know why thit 3 arrangcipent has not been carried out.