STREET RECONSTRUCTION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 21 October 1927, Page 13

STREET RECONSTRUCTION.

TO THE EDITOR Or TSZ PRESS. Sir,—l note with interest the proposal to raise a vast sum of money for street construction, and also the remarks by leading citizens. The remarks of one are surely illuminating! He says "Asa motorist support should be forthcoming etc. —thereby increasing the pleasure and reducing the cost of motoring." Surely this is the poorest of recommendations for such a loan, and unworthy of one of our leading citizens,' seeing that the present-day conditions require less selfishness and more stability. And why, may.l ask, should those' Striving for" sounder conditions, or unable to enjoy the pleasure of motoring, pay to keep our leading citizen, at less cost or encourage him in his public capacity when he has no better justification for a large expenditure of public money at the present time? As your leader rightly says—if our City is onlV to be luxuriously furnished, the scheme should be pigeon-holed without more ado. —Yours, etc., ' E. C. BARKER. October 20th. [We must point out that our "if" was followed by a "but," and that we did not say that the scheme is a luxury plan.—Ed. The Press.]