EASTBOURNE FERRY SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2679, 27 January 1916, Page 6

EASTBOURNE FERRY SERVICE.

Sir,—"Pro Bono Publico'e" letter in thismorning'B issue appeals to a largo portion of the public in ■■ Wellington City, as also to visitors to Wellington City. When the Eastbourne Borough Council assumed control of two antiquated ferry boats, the general public -were led to believe that everything possible in the shape of net results from a financial point of view, and the interests of the residents of Eastbourne and Day's Bay, was to be accomplished; and what do we find?—a man standing at the gangway with a pair of sheep-ear pliers, and the travelling publio clamouring to get on board the boat. You have only got to take a stop-watch on a holiday and cheok how many tickets that man can collect and snip in one minute to know what the delay moans where 1500 people are attempting to board a vessel. The man at the gangway insists that each passenger must take possession of his clipped ticket, for what reason notfody seems to know. The bigger the.crush, the loss examination there is of tiokets on board a boat. If it is impossible for the Eastbourne Borough to devise some means of rapid handling of traffio and provide up-to-date ferry boats, the sooner the Wellington City Council takes control of tho service to Day's Bay and. Eastbourne, the better for the Wellington public, Williams's Park, Eastbourne, and tie City as a whole. There is nothing in New Zealand run 011 more parochial or amatour lines than the Eastbourne service.—L am, etc., A WELLINGTON CITIZEN.