OCEAN BEACH IMPROVEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 12

OCEAN BEACH IMPROVEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, —Since my letter of November 2 appearing- in your issue of to-dav was written. I have noticed that the 'Tramways Committee is recommending to the City Council to reject my proposal on financial grounds. This decision, as I read it. is only so far as the Tramways Committee itself is concerned, and it remains to be seen what attitude the City Council will take in the matter. Off and on ever since the proposal was first placed before the public in February, letters have appeared in your columns, both from visitors and local residents, and never once has anything but the highest praise been given to the scheme. Why. even the members of the Tramways Committee who have studied it for three months apeak well of it and call it commendable, although they turn it down apparently mi financial grounds only at the present juncture. Again, the Domnin Board appears to have thought very well of it when, at a full meeting, it voted almost unanimously in .favour of the proposed promenade being placed on the sandhills. It may therefore. I think, be reasonably assumed that the proposal is good, sound, feasible, and also capable of becoming a large source of revenue to the City Council, and one well worth an expenditure of £15,000 if we want to develop our splendid Ocean Beach, spreading as it does right along the southern boundary of our city, fed by no fewer than four tram lines, and at present only very indifferently furnished for a few hundred feet at its southern corner. Why. the suggestion now made seems to me about the best proposition ever made to the City Council, and one which should not be lightly thrust aside, even if the Tramways Committee cannot take the matter in hand.—l am. etc., C. H. Napier. November 5,