RE PROPOSED; TRAMWAY EXTENSION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13721, 26 June 1915, Page 5

RE PROPOSED; TRAMWAY EXTENSION.

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir, — Perhaps in writing to you I am only courting opposition", but> as a resi--1 dent of 28 years' standing, I deem it my duty to protest against the- unbusiness- ! like attitude • that is being adopted by 1 our City Fathers in the mattnr of trani- • way management. In the first place, ' the tramway should never have been constructed except on the betterment ■ system, and its inauguration simply ■ formed an excuse for sales at high prices 1 of sections which were pi*ospective]y io I be served by the trams. It Is 1 now pro- ' posed to l'uii outside the borough, but 1 there is no' word of asking contributions 1 from the outsiders who are to be'bene- • fited at the expense of the borough • ratepayers. Your readers are perhaps ' hot aware that if the accounts w^re kept as they are in Wellington, Wani ganuij and I suppose all othex 1 t^owns, } the. annual los's would be shown to be . certainly hot less than £2000 per annum, . and I think £2500 would be nearer the j mark. A big mistake was made in the t first instance, and it appears the pre--1 sent Councillors, instead of "scrapping'* L the trams as they rightfully did the 5 Gentle Annie quarry, are endeavoring t to bolster it up. Everyone is "liable to . make a mistake, but it is sinful to persist when the mistake is recognised. I ; have now had two years' experience of , motor busses on our worst roads, and . am prepared to place at the 1 disposal pf r a committee of the Council ray books of - account, which will conclusively derrions strate the superiority of motor bussed as . moiiey-eainierii over any class of tram , system. I trust when the loan proi posals come before the public a thor- ! ough and complete investigation will bo > insisted on before any more borough moneys are wasted. — I am, etc., > . J. FOSTER. i ■ '—^*^— ■» ■ ' ■ ■