SUBURBAN ACCESS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 10

SUBURBAN ACCESS

CONFUSION AS TO PROPOSALS

Commenting oil the reported proceedings of the City Council's meeting on Thursday, a well-known business man remarked to a "Post" reporter to-day that he could not understand jusb what happened in connection with'the important issues discussed. "There seems to have been a complete mix-up," he said, "between the proposals for access to the eastern suburbs, the western suburbs, and the subject matter of the deputation from the Labour Party re unemployed relief. First the proposals submitted were for a poll for the eastern and a special order (i.e., no poll of ratepayers) for the western. Then it seemed that this was changed somehow, and we find that both proposals are to go to a poll of ratepayers, but no reason seems to have been given for this change. Thus it would appear, definitely enough, that the access via Bowen street and Sydney street is to be the subject of a poll after all, despite many assurances, for what they were, worth, to the contrary. But here comes the rub. At the same meeting the council decided to raise £25,000 as an unemployed relief loan (i.e., not requiring a poll), to carry out the same western access job. What is it all about?"