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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17225, 16 August 1921, Page 6

Although Mr Ferris, in the letter from him which we print in another column, dissents very completely, from .our remarks upon the football tourna-' ment arranged by the Public Schools' Amateur Acnletic Association, we are quite in sympathy with the drift of his letter, '"iiyes in the boat" is the most •wholesome of rules for school athletics: tlie. less the profanum volgus is thought about by the boys, the better. No rational creature would recommend that school teams should always have a crowd of .paying outsiders to seo them,, and we do not think that what we wrote can really be read as suggesting that they .should. But it is difficult to believe • that the boys could take hurt, or that the good principle insisted upon by our correspondent .would really ba violated, if the boys submitted themselves onoe a year, at the annual tournament, to the interest of the crowd which Mr Ferris distrusts; • — 4 — - The Progress League is continuing to urge the Post Office to permit it to replace the mail services affected by the cutting down of the railway cervices. Public opinion in Canterbury is certainly behind the League in this matter, and it will not be content with the mere rejection of the League's offer to carry the mails without cost to the Department. If tfte Department does not feel able to provide the normal services, it ought at least not to place obstacles in the way of those who axe willing and able to provide them. Indeed, it ought to be glad of any assistance the League can .give. ■ - ♦ ■■■ ■ - ' The Tramway Board yesterday, by 5 votes to 4, adopted the Works Committee's report, to the effect that the previous decision to carry the Bryndwr extension down Rugby street , could not be altered. No arguments were advanced during the discussion which lead us to alter our previously expressed opinion that the extension is at present unnecessary, and tfont the route selected will be more costly in construction and operation than the alternative route which was suggested, from the Fendalton line by way of Rossall street and Strowan road It is admitted that the work cannot be put in hand for eighteen months or two years, a'nd therefore there seems no adequate reason for the Board's rejection of Mr A. S. Taylor's proposal that a final decision on tlhe matter should be postponed for six months. It is not merely the objection of the Rugby street residents to a tram service being run down this street that j has to be considered, but the questions of oost and probable returns.