TRAMWAY LOAN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 5

TRAMWAY LOAN

Sir,—Concerning the loan for the very necessary modernisation of the Christchurch transport system, where is the proposed loan to be raised? Why not issue £5 shares to the amount required. and let the general public take them up? This would keep the money circulating in our own city; and, having a financial interest in the concern, people would offer constructive criticism artd help to protect their own property. Passes could be issued, at a nominal cost, where deemed necessary. and all free passes cancelled.— Yours, etc., n u modern PROGRESS. November 7. 1950.

A/T? ir, “ I would like to ask Mr Geo. Manning as a member of the City Council and the Tramway Board if he believes in the removal of the electric ?Y55 h ® ad u w,r .! s and P° les in the inner aiea of the city, and how he considers inis can be done in view of the tramway loan. which is to provide for trolley buses in addition to other bused m our transport system.—Yours, etc., Mo i , ENQUIRER. November 3, 1950.

Sir.—Note that at the Tramway Board’s special meeting no information whatever was given; we still do not know what is meant by “main tramway routes,” which the board’s leaflet says are to have trolley-buses, nor- was that expert report upon the scheme released. The board members merely put up an elaborate and dishonest pretense that the issue is between trams and buses, instead of between trolley-buses and Diesel buses. It is high time that the electors made it unmistakably clear that they resent being gulled and deceived, and now is the time to do it, This is fully as important an issue as that we do not intend to have our radio reception quite unnecessarily ruined by trolley-buses, or to be saddled with an inefficient system devised by incompetent amateurs and condemned by their own experts.—Yours, etc., THROW IT OUT. November 7, 1950.