THOSE TRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 8

THOSE TRAMS

(To Ibe Editor of the Herald.) .Sir. —Your issue of yesterday evening states trail) takings for past fortnight as £IC4 3/5, roughly sav £IOO per wetfk : sufficient for figures, sav,. £SOOO per year. Will Councillor Todd, who is so expert and voluminous in figures, tell us, the. public, who tire the users of the train, cars: (1) What amount do salaries come to, motor men, and proportionate expense for supervision, cost of power, ticket printing, cleaning, cost of motor shed rent, proportionate cost of wear and tear; (2) in scrapping trams is not the whole amount already sunk written oil' as a. dead loss; (-3) uhen Waikareineaqa power for electricity comes into use in 1027-8, and young progressive! councillor..;, take the place oi fossils, and want electric up-10-dite trams for an up-to-date town, they will have to go to all the initial expense, and curse those who blindly, or for selfish reasons, threw away a sound commercial asset. The will also feel like tearing and rending any of the councillors consenting to scrapping—tliose( at any rate who are handy to get ut. —I am, etc., “TitAMS EVERY TIME.”