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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 284, 28 November 1872, Page 2

TO THE IdITOK CF THE NELSON EVENING MAIL. Fir_T have read the last two articles in the Mail witli great interest^ and was in hopes of finding: some practical suggestions from you for starting the works you if.tvoca.te Will you allow nie. to.suggest the desirability of our Superintendent studying the "Tramways Act 1872." and Ids initiating the construction of a tramway to connect Nelson and say Keefton. A Superintendent is supposed to be a leader ot the people, for when offering himself for election he virtually sn.ys ;—I have sufficient confidence in myself to plan a course superior to that generally followed, jind it you will be led by me you will not regret it. It purely follows tbat if elected he should redeem his promise and become a leader, and Dot be content to sit in the chair of offire and care only for his salary, neglecting his stewardship, allowing the estate he manages to run to waste, the workpeople to remain idle in face of a tremendous accumulation of work requiring to be executed, and a wail arising from those he is supposed to superintend, that they are beiDg ruined by Lis supineness. But not to cry over spilt milk, supposing he now commences to work, leaving the talking to he done till after the tramway is made, it appears to me there is provision in the Tramways Act for any ruling body,, whether a Board of Works, Municipality, or Provinc'al Government, to raise funds for the carrying oh of a tramway whenever it is. thought desirable j it this is so, the Superintendent would not have much trouble in collecting the nteessary data to calculate Uie expense of the work and his own acquaintance with finance ►hould show him how the work can be carried out without going into foreign loans for the needful. . v If he shows any energy hs a lende** in promoting this very important project, there are many amongst us who would suppori him earnestly; and it is possible he miy yet retrieve the laurels he has lost from too much talking and too little action, I am, &c, Yeoman.