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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 6. 1962.

[introduction]

"When is the council going to do something about our cable car?" That's a question that a lot of Vic students may have been asking lately as they battle out of the sheep run to catch the five o'clock launching of that "antique tram that rattles up the hill."

Last week Salient put the question to the Mayor. We pointed out that the Wellington City Cable Car, touted as one of our scenic wonders, is also a bit of an economic marvel. Apart from being one of the most overworked and underrated of the Transport Department's services, it has managed to show a profit continuously for years: last year it made the tidy sum of £4,135 after its direct working expenses.

We considered that pretty good, especially when the Department as a whole showed a £131,000 loss. Mr Kitts was of the opinion that it was impossible to isolate any of the Transport Department's services as an economic unit, any more than one could say that the sewerage system was unjustifiable because it did not run at a profit. Very well, we said, but surely if one was going to improve a service, a likely choice would be one that already ran economically.