MOTORBUS v. TRAM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143787, 10 May 1912, Page 7

MOTORBUS v. TRAM.

(To tlio .Editor.) Sir, —In consequence of your last subloader X shall have something further to say on tho above question, as 1 see that in order to assise your ease, which must be getting rather weak to need such assistance, you impute to we interested motives because 1 happen to be a motorist. A great part of Devon Street to fitsroy is such as to satisfy any reasonable motorist, and it appears to me rather paltry to try to discredit jny arguments by suggesting that for the take ol the improvement of the balance I should lend myself to the advocacy of the motorbus. Further information has already come to mo in supnort of my views that it is unwise, in the present position of the matter, to rush into a tram scheme, and as soon as I conveniently can 1 will write further on the matter. —I am, etc., ■WALTER BEAVLEY.

[Mr. Rowley's last letter invited the retort. He suggested that we looked at the question irom the point of view of those who would use the tramways, .regardless of the inconvenience and damage they might cause to all other classes of traffic and of the pockets of those who might have to pay any loss on the working. It is surely, too, rather straining language to suggest that New Plymouth is "rushing” into a tram scheme. Did it ever rush into anytiling? It is going on for three years since a committee was appointed to consider the question, and it is twenty months since Mr. Black reported on the.proposal. Why, Invercargill has got its tramways running while we have been thinking about them, and Napier will have it system in operation before wo have made up our minds, if we do not stir ourselves a little. If we are always to wait for some possible better systems we shall never have anything but horse omnibuses.—Ed. T.H.]