PUBLIC WORKS POLICY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22496, 2 September 1938, Page 7

PUBLIC WORKS POLICY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. six> —In. a utter to “The Press” last week Mr George Ingram suggested the completion of Captain Thomas s road. I am and have for many years been heartily in accord with this suggestion. To any observer who regularly travels the Sumner-Lyttelton road via Evans Pass it must be very evl £ent that Captain Thomas’s line upon botn sides of the pass is the only proper °P£It is now 20 years since the old makeshift zigzag on the Lyttelton side was cut out and the road there constructed on Captain Thomas’s easy grade of 1 in 32, and this part of the road, now that tie widening is completed, is greatly appreciated by commercial ana tourist travellers alike. If the road were carried down the Sumner side upon the other side of the valley, where the line may still be traced, it would be at the same gentle grade instead of the present formidable one of in places as great as 1 in 7. As Mr Ingram pointed out, it cannot now be on grounds of expense that this road is not completed as originally planned, because citizens are constantly being asked to suggest work for employment of men, so what could be offered better than this so necessary work, which is within reach of the city and so would provide an occupation for men without their leaving their homes. —Yours, etc., TRAMPER. August 31, 1938.