THE TRAMWAYS.

Evening Star, Issue 11725, 7 April 1902, Page 4

THE TRAMWAYS.

TO Tlllf EDITOK. Sh-,—lt was with pleasure I read in your issue of this.evening that a contract had not yet been signed between the St. Kilda and 'City Councils in re tramway affairs. It is. indeed,, comforting to learn this fact, as I and many others were under the impression' that the concessions had been granted long ago; but as such is not the ia.se it behoves the ratepayers of this borough to attend promptly to the matter, in order to protect their own interests, lest they may he launched into unfathomable depths, from whence there is no returning I trust that the St. Kilda Council will not enter into any compact which will jn any way jeopardise the ratepayers' interest* without first obtaining the ratepayers' sanction. When the City Council were about to purchase the tramways from a company tfacv were obliged to obtain the sanction of 'the City ratepayers; therefore I contend that any borough ratepayers hare equal right to demand a poll to be taken in such an important matter as the one now at issue. I would ad vise all land-owners in this locality (with all due deference to the Council) to strongly object to any proceeding which is likely to retard wettlemenJ. or depreciate the value of their properties. It is evident that the abolishment of season tickets would be the means of reducing rents, and in many cases leaving houses empty, which means' death to St. Kilda and Musselburgh, while it would give life and prosperity to the City of Dunedin. So now, residents of the boroughs mentioned, shake off dull sloth, and let us not merit " Sleepv Flat," which name I have often heard "applied to our steadily increasing neighborhood. Trusting one and all will rise to the occasion and endeavor to do justice to all concerned—l am, etc., MUSSELBURGH LJIKD-OW>"KB. April 5.