MORE PROGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 February 1933, Page 8

MORE PROGRESS

(To the Editor) Bir, —The present slump, puts one in mind of the colour scheme of a garden of flowers. The dry weather comes down on that splendid colour scheme, and the grass turns, brown, and it being so hot at the time, one is apt to say that the colour scheme is all gone. The Tolour scheme (as it were) of the trades is at present badly shattered —painters building stone walls, carpenters, blacksmiths, quarry workers and- fitters shovelling out ditches, navvies doing gardening, and. so on, all on the dole. The real labourers are mostly conspicuous by their absence (labourers classed as labourers by Hie trades). It makes one real uncomfortable, and one is inclined to growl in his heard, over these semiuncouth jobs. When I was a boy T .sought adventure, but it seems adventure now seeks us however well we might be hidden behind a trade, but like a lot more I can see the dust, but don’t know the cause. One has to get up high for views, for better fresh air, early sun, etc., but what a trial of strength if one has no car, to go up in to that.house, or home, on the big rise, and what a lot of such rises round our tine City, more bench land than flat below, splendid for building sites; so near, yet so far. Why has no one among all our wise men past and present, invented an easy way, and cheap, to get up there, so that even a poor worker can get there cheaply, quickly, night or day, safe away from the deadly gas of tiin future, as we read of it. What a good thing for the builders if some one invented this for our town—truly a key to a big job of building for progress; a kind of very cheap cable car, to supply 4 to 8 houses, to be operated by ordinary passengers, for cheapness to cut out’ expense of driver, truly a thing thoughtful, apart from the slump.—l am etc.,

TOM CORDON Nelson, 11th February.