MOTORS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 4

MOTORS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

To the Editor. Sir, —Why all this pother about a motor car for the district nurse? The District Nursing League has gone into the matter and has agreed that a car is unnecessary. What more need be said? The League is not in a position to maintain the running cost and upkeep of a car as well ,as its initial cost. Doesn’t that settle it? The nurse is supplied with a push cycle, also a tram pass. Surely a push cycle is good enough for short distances? It is only six miles to Aram oho terminus and back, and a mere ten miles to Castlccliff and back, and if one tires of the push cycle can’t one take advantage of a tram pass ? (Has anyone seen a tram pass lately?). For a long distance there are taxis paid to run for a paltry 1/6 a mile. Why not walk to and from Castlebliff anyhow. It has been done! Trams don’t go up Durie Hill, but it is ridiculously easy to wheel a push cycle up there and “coast” down.. A small community of 20,000 cannot be expected to provide up-to-date meaus of transit. Because you have a motor, sir, why should anyone else want one? This craze for high living nearly makes me bust my boiler!— Yours for service (sometimes), “PUFFING BILLY.”