SOUTH INVERCARGILL COMPLAINTS.

Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 3

SOUTH INVERCARGILL COMPLAINTS.

To the Editor. Sir, —Will you allow me to say how thoroughly I endorse Mr M. Thomas’s just remarks, particularly in his letter to you regarding the neglect of South Invercargill. Also the apathy shown on the part of our City Councillors over the real needs of the South Invercargill people. . I understand, sir, it is because the tram service is not paying that the trifling matter of a shelter shed for the comfort and convenience of the South people appears to be shelved. Will you, sir, allow me to point out that if institutions of any kind do not cater for the convenience of the public, no kind of public or private enterprise can expect to flourish. lam not stretching it in the least, when I state that quite a number of both young and old people down this way do walk as far as two miles to the terminus and as it is impossible to walk to time-table they are only too glad to sit down for a little while awaiting the arrival of the car quite apart from the fact that it may be an extremely wet and cold day. This fact of itself, sir, keeps most distant would-be car travellers at home. These otherwise would be adding to the revenue of the service. In conclusion, sir, will you allow me to cite only one of many such cases that came under my notice quite recently? Two little girls had walked from away down Seaward Bush carrying parcels to the tram on their way to town, and with me they had to wait some time for the tram. We stood anywhere we could out of the bitter westerly wind. Such conditions should not exist and would not exist had we a more sympathetic and less parsimonious body of City Fathers.—l am, etc.,

I . TOM GILLER. May 23, 1930. [We are assured that there is a difficulty over the site for a tram shelter, and that in the meantime arrangements are made for trains to pick up passengers at Mann street where there is a verandah.—Ed. S.T.]