ACCESS TO ROSENEATH

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 9

ACCESS TO ROSENEATH

Sir, —It is gratifying to be confirmed in ! our judgment that Sir Alexander Matheson is not to be taken seriously, that his contributions to your columns are meant only to amuse. 1 note that he defty sidesteps the challenge put up to him—by ignoring it. Like Sir Alexander, I am prepared to welcome any scheme that will give "improved access to Roseneath," but it must be for the whole of Roseneath, and not for a select coterie of residents. The City Council, if it is not biased in favour of a few residents, should welcome the opportunity of getting out of an awkward predicament by taking a vote of the affected districts. This would be a better method than petitions, which at times are apt to be misleading, «especially when a lady residing near the Rotunda in Oriental Bay is invited to sign—and did sign—a petition in favour of an inclined tram lift for Roseneath. In conclusion, Sir, may I ask the council to consider in all seriousness whether it is prepared *o lep^al :i blunder such as was perpetrated in connection with the Kilbirnie tunnel?—l am, etc., R.H.S. 18th March.