WEST END FACILITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 8

WEST END FACILITIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your correspondent “Petitioner” is getting away from the subject of the telephone call box. In the first instance he says there is considerable dissatisfaction with the action of the West End Progressive Association in declining the offer of the Post and Telegraph Department to have a telephone box erected at the junction of Cook and Ferguson Streets, particularly as the department indicated that- this was the only place at which they would consent to place a box. Now' I will again inform “Petitioner” that we have had no offer from the Post and Telegraph Department to erect a box at the place mentioned, nor have we refused same: but as progressive citizens of We6t End we are trying to find the most convenient place, subject to a fair amount of revenue to warrant the box. Localities have been discussed including the one mentioned, and as we hope to get only one box in the meantime it should be where the convenience will be for the greater number.

If residents in the vicinity of Cook and Fergusson Streets who are said to have signed the petition will only get behind their association and give their views on the matter we would be very grateful. Ido not wish to enter into a newspaper controversy; my only wish is to put your correspondent right. By the way lam informed “Petitioner” has a telephone of his own, so why worry?—l am, etc., ARTHUR IV. JUST. President, West End Progressive Association.