TRAMWAY MATTERS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17811, 10 July 1923, Page 9

TRAMWAY MATTERS.

' TO THE IDITOR OF "THE paESS." Sir,—l read with some interest conudfcrable correspondence in "The fress" relative to tramway matters, "Kl it seems to me that if tho TramW Board did ati thaf is suggested ■tay might be very properly likened to ie Diau and his ass (named in tho ab 'e) having "tried to please every,ol>y; pleased nobody, and lost his ass mto the bargain." Somo of your corespondents want cheaper fares in tho 5*31 section from tho Square, and «arer. fa reh to t h e suburbs; others nee versa; while others are clamour*S for extensions to suburbs, where ■to running of trams would not earn ™fin«nt to pay thb tram conductor's I 1"?. Extensions have previously m made to suburbs where the proW*? owners signed an agreement to special rates to make up the loss * «>e Tramway Board, and soon after- *»«« the same owners contested the power of- the Board to collect such fc n C °nsi(lering thb highei wages mA oard now pav to their employees ft. 1 Skater co=t of providing adui"i" al . Mrs, I consider the Board is vi * ra deferring further borrowing at „3l< rate, 0 f interest to make unF&r» i 6 ex tensious, or in reducing *hM, l ar& TC "'T reasonable, ana &£?• r<i not producing more than grew* to keep the Board from eninto avoidable debt. Jgp" 1 ' pleased with the very sensible Sfel- ■ nd reports by the capable gen»h^ anager ' as to the why and tho P*ef°re the Board acts as it does |-.«6 'Various matters complained of,

and I trust thev will continue, as m tlm past, to treat the business of t-ne Board on the principle of "fair p!av_to all. and undue favours to none. Yours, etc.. EQUITY. !