WANTED: BRAINS.

Southland Times, Issue 18971, 19 June 1923, Page 2

WANTED: BRAINS.

To the Editor. Sir, —I think the civic authorities are about due for a shake up regarding our tram service. Saturday evening we had the first night of the change and anywhere between 400 and 500 assistants had to go home for tea. I arrived at the tram terminus as it was striking five and had to wait till 5.10 for a car. A few weeks ago the Dunedin express was late. We got near a car which went off half full and then had to wait in the cold and wet, for over a quarter of an hour. Thia is a common occurrence just after the train arrives. Then these one-man cars. It is about up to the Health Officer to condemn them. There is absolutely no ventilation when the door is closed. By the time the end of the journey is reached they are simply unbearable. The roads here are too filthy to ride a bicycle and the cars too insanitary to ride in. This town is making a great cry about attracting the country folk. Well, they ought to feel at home, especially in Tay street, which is at present like a dirty bush track in the On Saturday evening this homeliness and country aspect was improved by two large draft horses grazing on the grass in the centre. This would have made a charming picture of progressive Invercargill. I would like to see one of our new “City Fathers” ask in the Council what the tinkering with Tay street cost and also why the cars cannot be run with a little common sense. The Georgetown and North Invercargill folk must be a long-suffering class.—l am, etc., . CIVIC.