The Archive · 1923

Economy and Equity?

Roads. Is it possible to have an organized system of road making and re-making instead of carrying on with the prevent hand-to-mouth policy Traffic. Are the present regulations concerning trams, motor-cars and ricshas entirely satisfactory Lighting. Is it absolutely necessary to! put up with a service that breaks down fre quently? Why is it that the Municipal Electricity Service is so inferior to the privately owned water supply?

Labour. Can the Municipality honestly pretend to sympathize with the movement to improve the condition of factory employees when the remarks of the Commissioner for Public Works made in his report for 1921-2 are still true?

"It is no longer possible to obtain an adequate supply of unskilled labourers on the basis of a low wage paid daily.—The pay is insufficient to enable them. to do more than Tive hovels an the outskirts of the Settlement.

6. Health. Are the arrangements for the supervision of milk, bread, and other food sapphos adequate There are, of course, many other copartments of Municipal that would renay careful consideration on the part of ratepayers, but these suggestions may be sufficient to stimulate some public spirited persons to come forward with some constructive proposals that will undoubtedly be useful as well as interesting. am, ete.

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