TRAM TO OPOHO.

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 7

TRAM TO OPOHO.

10 THE EDITOB. Sir, —The meeting last night showed) that a tram was wanted 1 . The route does not matter. Thousands of pounds should now be expended unprofit ably. One hundred passengers and property-holders must be benefited at the expense of the whole city. No attempt whatever was made to prove whether it would pay a tenth part of working expenses; nor was a company formed to provide a motor bus at its own expense as a trial experiment. Your correspondent “Elephants” made several important statements, each on© of which is correct or otherwise, and should be placed 1 before an expert tribunal. According to him the initial cost of construction is prohibitive, ami no tramway can possibly pay half working expenses if.it is run on the outskirts of any district anywhere. This, therefore, would positively disprove Opoho or Pelichet Bay. The City Council has made a mistake, and now sees it, and must rescind it. If a separate vole were asked for either district, it would be refused by an overwhelming majority.—l am, etc., Counsellor. August 10.

TO-THE EDITOR. Sir, —I -would respectfully ask you to grant me a little space to congratulate the people, and especially the ladies of Opoho, on the way they rolled up to “ the stormy petrel’s” meeting in the Opoho Church Hall last evening. It is very pleasing to know there is such an enterprising public spirit among the people, “whoso light is set on the hill,” and if nothing more results from last night’s meeting than , the awakening of the people to claim their just rights as citizens the writer will bo well satisfied. Among the dozen or more speakers nearly half were women, and this gives one some hope that the Opoho women will immediately get together and see that our procrastinating city councillors absorb some more of the unfortunately unemployed husbands and brothers of our Dunedin women folk without any further delay by putting such unemployed to. work at once laying the rails of the tramway to Opoho and Signal Hill. — I am, etc., Gek-Ess. August 10.