ACCESS TO ROSENEATH

Evening Post, Issue 59, 10 March 1924, Page 8

ACCESS TO ROSENEATH

10 THB EDITOR.

Sir, —The writer of the letter in Friday's issue signed "Upper Heights" is evidently one of the members of" that small band'of Rpseneath residents who wish to saddle the ratepayers of Wellington with another white elephant inasmuch as this will only benefit the residents of sixty houses in Roseneath, and will cause a loss, according to the Mayor of Wellington, of' about eleven hundred pounds per annum. From a more reliable source than the Mayor, who has always shown great friendship for this small band of persistent fighters for the cable car to the crescent, the loss is sixteen hundred pounds per annum. 1 commend to your correspondent "Upper Heights" the weighty logic used by Mr. Prendeville and Mr. Peter Frasor, M.P., to the City Council when opposing that fantastic scheme, the cable car.

."Upper Heights" states that a section which forms the minority has broken loose. from the association aiid has started to form another body, calling themselves a "Roseneath and Mount Victoria Progressive Association." He also asks for information as to where it was formed and who formed it, what is its construction and its policy, and why it was hidden from the general run of Roseneath residents. For the benefit of Roseneath heights I-may mention that it is a new association formed representing the four hundred residents who signed the petition"against the City Council's interpretation of "improved access to Roseneath." Its-membership .comprises residents from the boundary between Hataitai and Roseneath and the whole district right down to Hawker street, owing to practically the whole of the population of this part of Wellington being so incensed at the actions of a small number, of the Roseneath and Oriental Bay Association members. It is believed that the new association will have the largest membership of any ratepayers and electors' association in and about Wellington. For the benefit of "Upper Heights". I might also mention that no member of the old association is allowed to become a member of the new association.. The latter will not be a party, in any shape or form, to hole-in-the-corner methods of any kind whatever.l —l am, etc., UPPER HEIGHTS No. 2 10th March.