AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14874, 24 September 1918, Page 4

AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT.

n As an instauc-e of the stupid and unrair manner in vshicli some people oppose progress pj'opusals we cite the "following .--The chairman of tlie Harbour Board was yesterday informed by a ratepayer that he had been informed on Wie authority of an "accountant" thatit the Harboar Board acquired the wliarv^es there would be a curtailment ot the tram service and only one train per day run. Mr Duncan telegraph^ i. X'h ]?™ stef of Railways repeating what had been stated, and received the K°. WU? R' re P]X fro 1? Mr Herries:— ihis bemg a public holiday, Government offices-are dosed. I cannot get report from my department on th«> subject, matter of your telegram. Personally 1 know nothing of an y proposed alteration, and think it highly improbable. Passenger traffic '"accommodation on the Nelson line does not depend pn the ownership of the wharves, but on the number of passengers travelling. Special circumstances, such as a coal strike, might cause a restriction of tram services, but that would havo nothing to do with the wharves. The department is desirous in every way to assist the Harbour Board.—(S^d.j W. H. Herries."