DAILY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8248, 22 February 1905, Page 2

DAILY NOTES.

. The action of the the City Council, in asking advertising the Tramway Board to SfinsANXE. refuse to allow the electric tramway poles to be used for advertising purposes, will be endorsed generally. It should be the object of the community, local bodies included, to discourage, as far as possible, this form of advertising. As they now stand, the tramway poles are not exactly picturesque. "We hardly care to think what they would look like if they were made a medium .of advertisements. A shield, L however well designed, would be an abomination; and as for painting it "an approved colour/ that would be impossible, for the reason that, as the shield would be out of place, all colours would be equally discordant. The application which was made to the Council on Monday evening deserved the reception it got, and we hope it will receive an equally short shrift when it goes before the Tramway Board. The delays in deliver* san francisco ing the San Francisco MAO,. mail in London, of. which complaint is being mads at "the other end," W. not caused between New Zealand and America. For more than a year past, the Oceanic Steamship Company has observed . admirable punctuality, in 'carrying the mails between Auckland and the >t7nited States. The fault lies in America Omng to the failure of the .train ser' vice to connect with the Atlantic mail boats, the bags often have to remain in *Jew York for three or fo«Y^ pending J the departure o f the next boat It is too much to a expect that the Americans will accelerate their train services, in order that f I, at " Zealand mails shall be dS« •£%.

tually. But there ought to be some other means of ensuring that the bags shall catch the steamer at New York. For instance, would it not be possible to despatch the mails from Auckland a day or two earlier? If that course Avere adopted, the danger of delay would be obviated. d ft is vain for the the TErir> citizens to look to the swimming present City Council to bath. provide them with a tepid swimming bath. On Monday evening, the Council was proof against the pressure exerted by a deputation bearing a petition containing 1000 names. The deputation coaxed, and the petition " spoke for itself," even more eloquently, but all to no purpose. The Council declined to take the responsibility of authorising the construction of a bath, and it refused also to ask for authority from the ratepayers. In declining to go to the ratepayers, the Council was well advised. It is useless just now to ask the ratepayers to countenance any works for which money is required. They would simply refuse. But we cannot help thinking that the Council might have taken upon itself to grant the deputation's request. The estimated cost of a tepid bath does not exceed £2000, and the Council has power of its own initiative to spend up to this amount. The Sumner Borough the stthner Council and the Christclifi'S. church Tramway • Board are still seeking a mutually satisfactory solution of the problem arising out of the cliffs on the Sumner Road. The Board has offered the Council the choice of two alternatives. Either it will provide the whole cost of the proposed deviation in the road by omitting the section of the lih9 from the Sumner Post Office to the Baths, or it is willing to electrify the existing; Hne3 on this section if the Council will contribute £200. Neither of these alternatives meets with the Council's approval. The Council desires to have the danger from the cliffs removed, but it declines most emphatically to surrender the line from the Post OfSce to the Baths; and it is averse to paying £200 unless the present line is relaid. If it is wise it will give way on the latter point. By doing s» it will secure practically all that it is justified in asking at a trifling outlay.