THE TRAMWAY BOARD.
TO THI KDITOB, 0» "THB I'MBS.". *;\**| Sir, —If your correspondents, "PecNj&fji 'trian'' and "Ratepayer," had taken'-'thy! ! trouble to find out a little more aboti|ij what they aro talking about they woityf&S not put thonieiolves in the position i being corrected. If they kow^ ! aiiytTiing at all about the TnaMl \ way Board they wouW know that^S ! new Board can appoint their own 'idnSJ and hour of meeting, and if Mr (ki&m , and iMr Ell are elected, it is quite p*«| ' sible to hold the meetings ou MondaMggl and as Parliament, adjourns from, Rip. day nights until Tuesday mornin^M^* j would not matter if the whole Boum^ 1 Cabinet, Premier, and all wero elected^ For "Pedestrians" aaid "Ratepajeryjp ! information, I would like to remar^ ' that Parliament does not sit for eithtr^j "' five or six months of tho year— soaei^ ' times it barely exoeeds four monthi^J ' Then I would like to ask what concei^f! i it is of "Pedestrian" or any ono eWiF^I Mr Gray or Mr Ell like to Becuw'otJ.'; i jeopardise their popularity, unles^i'pf;^ i course, he happens to he a defeat**!^! i candidate of last December, and.iifii • afraid of the former being tha case^ :To elect a new Board of aggrieVed'^ i Toms, Dicks, and Harrys, while .tKrs , : lines are still in the contractor's handa-iS / might prove fatal to the whole syste^n&j. » —Yours, etc., '' . : g'"i TRAM RIDERK^
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12509, 23 May 1906, Page 8
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230THE TRAMWAY BOARD. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12509, 23 May 1906, Page 8
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