Cutting Costs.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 8

Cutting Costs.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —Most of us are glad to see that the Drainage Board is reducing its rates and that the Waimakariri River Trust proposes to take a step in the same direction. This is heartening news to thousands who are struggling along against adverse circumstances and trying to keep their heads above water, despite taxes, levies and cuts. Perhaps other local bodies could vigorously tackle the problem. Costs of administration are still too high, and there must be directions in which they could be lowered substantially. The quicker this is done the sooner we will all escape some of the worst effects of the depression, and be able to free businesses from debt so that the scope of employment can be widened. It is no good talking and dreaming about a return to prosperity unless definite steps are taken along these lines now’. Will local body members, please, take off their coats and put the axe in hard for their country's sake?—l am, etc., JOHN CITIZENr