MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 1 November 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I The Wanganui tramways are still going slow. Cr. Donaldson at a Council meeting: "I was on a car on Saturday night that stopped eight time. ; . Wc ought to call it 'Fincgan'.- service'—'off again, on again, gone again.' " Cr. Spriggens: "Or a threegear service—low, slower, and stop." Cr. Donaldson sarcastically suggested a three-class service. When a cur stopped the first-class passengers woul i remain in, the second-class passengers i should get out and walk, and the thirdclass passengers would push the car. Says the "Lyttelton Times": —We find this North Island Administration distributing £1,170.427 for roads and bridges in the North Island, leaving 1 £4_lti.S.32, or a mere 26.3 per cent, for -.the South Island. The two Auckland road districts get £497,074, more than the whole of the South Island. They are given 31.3 per cent of the total expenditure 'for the Dominion, and 42.4 per cent of the expenditure for the North Island. Canterbury gets 3.5 per cent of the Dominion expenditure. or one-ninth of Auckland's share, a sure indication that Canterbury does nor vote on the right ticket. We are slowly beginning to appreciate that delightful joke the Aneklanders indulge in about "the roadless north."