TRAMWAY TICKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 7

TRAMWAY TICKETS

QUESTION OF PRINTING

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONCERNED

The suggestion made at tho last meeting of tho City Council, following a discussion on the non-acceptance of the lowest tender for the printing of tramway tickets, that the council might establish its own plant to carry out the work, was viewed with concern by tho council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last evening, and it was decided that a small deputation should wait upon the Mayor and record a protest against the prineiplo involved. Mr. J. Pcarce Luke, who introduced the matter, said that the question of whether a particular firm was competent to do tho work rested with the City Council, but for tho council to establish its own plant for such a purpose would be most uneconomic, and tho chamber should enter a. definite protest, especially as there were numerous private plants capable of doing more work than they had at present. The president (Mr. D. J. MeGowan): Further interference with private enterprise. Mr. Luke: Yes, and quite apart from that it is uneconomic.

Mr. A. Fletcher: I don't think we should make a protest at tho present time. It looked to mo like cross-talk over tho table, and it never actually went before the council.

Mr. Luke: My view is that we should take time by the forelock.

Tho president said that according to newspaper reports the Mayor had said that he himself had made tho suggestion regarding the printing not only of tramway tickets, but of all tho council's printing requirements. A member: I certainly think it is enough for us to record a protest. Messrs. MeGowan, Luke, and_ M. G. C. McCaul were appointed to wait upon the Mayor.