SHELTER AT HEADS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 20, 31 October 1944, Page 4

SHELTER AT HEADS

Sir j —ln a recent copy of "our home paper" there was mention of a proposal to build a shelter at the Heads. This to my mind is'very long so, in the hope that I can help a little, I enclose a cheque for £1 Is, Please hand this to Avhoever is in charge of the subscription list. And now I want residents of Whakatane to help to right what is really a great wrong being suffered by anyone living at any distance from a railhead. I refer to the. rate of s approximately fourpence per mile charged as fares by the Road Sers vice Department. As everyone knows rail fares arc only about one 1 pennj T per mile but those who live 1 away from railways are penalised '• 150 per cent. True co-operation dic--1 tates that this is quite wrong. For 1 a farmer living alongside his dairy factory pays the same • charge for cream cartage as the 1 farmer living 40 miles distant. I have been very busy locally getting • people to support this movement and have now a promise from the • Kaitaia Chamber of Commerce that they will do their utmost to have the fares reduced. What about the Whakatane folks doing the same? I know that, the late Lieut. Hult- - quist M.P. did his best and failed ! but we can always try again t and i the more there are , helping the beK ; ~ : ter chance we will have. Yours etc^ J COLIN W. CLARK. Kaitaia 19/10/44. (We have great pleasure in printing the above which we hope will give stimulous to the local effort to raise funds for the project mentioned. When a resident of Kaitaia is moved to donate a guinea to this cause it is surely time we jn Whakatane made more determined efforts to help ourselves. Should the local Beautifying Society desire to utilise this paper in any way we shall be glad to accommodate them. With regard to the other question raised by our correspondent—this we feel is a matter for the Chamber of. Commerce to deal with, Ed.)