RICCARTON TRAM SERVICE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17617, 21 November 1922, Page 8

RICCARTON TRAM SERVICE.

TO THI EDITOR OF "THE FBSSS." Sir, —I read with interest a letter in Saturday's issue and -1 can confirm What your correspondent states. The Riccarton service has been the cause of dissatisfaction for some time past, and to compel passengers on raoe-days to get out at Church corner (as far as the No. 8 trams go on race days) and walk the rest is only another cause for dissatisfaction. Some alteration in the management of the Riccarton service is badly, needed. I notice that the Borough Council at Lower Riccarton "went for" the Board and obtained some improvements. Cannot someone in Upper Riccarton and Sockburn do the same? "We have a member on the Board, and although I have carefully followed the reports of the Boarv. s meetings, 1 have never yet seen where he has ever brought forward anything for the improvement of the service. I have talked the matter over with some of my neighbours* up here, and they tell vaf that we cannot hope for any substantial improvement until after next tramway election, when we hope to see three or four good candidates putting up, so as to give us an opportunity to obtain the services of an up-to-date, new man to represent the Riccarton-Sockburn-Fendalton area.

By the way, the other evening T heard some-Fendalton residents bitterly complaining about something irregular in their service (not due to the present hifting of the rails). I did not trouble, as we are not interested in Fendalton's troubles, but it only goes to show that we are not alone in our troubles. It is Fendalton's misfortune if they cannot have a representative of their own on the Board, without having to be tacked on to the Riccar-ton-Sockburn area.—Yours, etc., . SOCKBURN RESIDENT.