THE TARADALE TRAMWAYS.
SIR,— I am very glad to see by your paper that the directors of the Tramway Company are not going to be browbeaten and drove ont of their way by selfish people that don't want no tramway theirselves, and don't think anybody else ought to have a tramway. Live and let live is my motto. Now, some people tell me that the tramway cannot pay because nobody lives along the Meanee-road, but that is all gammon ; there are now a lot of clergymen and ladies living down at the Mission, and they have sold a lot of land to people who have put up houses at. Meanee already without a tramway. The very night after I first saw your leading article about the tramway a friend of mine said it can't pay, I said, "You'ro a lion} ik will pay." And 1
offered to bet him, which I will with anyone, that directly the tramway ia made, the houses along the Meanee-road and the new Taradale-road and Fern Hill-road will spring up like mushrooms after a shower. You know well enough how quick wooden cottages are put up nowadays with labor too cheap and material at half price. So if you will be good enough to force the tramway to go on I and a great many more besides me will be very much obliged.— l am, &c, J.B. Napier, January 17, 18S8.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7955, 20 January 1888, Page 3
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236THE TARADALE TRAMWAYS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7955, 20 January 1888, Page 3
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