TRAMWAY FINANCE.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir, —I was. glad to. note the much more hopeful remarks of the new chairman of the Board, Mr A. .S. Taylor, with respect to- tramway finance and your recognition of that.' •Your article, however, concludes with a sentence which I think calls for comment. Dealing with th© contribution which the tramway concern makes to road upkeep, you say, "As a matter of fact, the service rendered by the Board in this particular—Mr Taylor says it is worth £IO,OOO a year—is only a fraction of what the public could legally charge the Board for the privilege of laying rails in the public street. . . . The Board, has the best of it." If the tramways were a privatelyowned business the sentence would be understandable, but as the tramways are a publicly-owned concern, not the property of the Board, the sentence does not appear to be in order.—Yours, 6tC *' OBSERVER.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 11
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155TRAMWAY FINANCE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 11
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