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The motorbus v. tramcar discussion, which, until the looming of the Balkan troubles, provided ample copy for the London dailies, was last week elevated to the dignity of a cartoon in "Punch." That genial commentator has readily afforded us permission to reproduce the drawing in question. We have taken the opportunity, therefore, to place it side by .side with our own rendering of another view of the situation. The other circumstance is, at any rate, pictorially a,nalogous, even if, for cartooning purposes, detail embellishments have been somewhat exaggerated.
The extra-Metropolitan authorities continue to wriggle uncomfortably at the thought of the enforced expense to which they are being put on account of the undoubted damaging of their ill-founded roads by recently-established motorbus services.
Sir George Gibb has publicly announced the inability of the Road Board to do anything which ,would shift from their shoulders the legal responsibility of the local authorities for road maintenance. Nevertheless, local councils continue to pass resolutions which it is hoped will influence the legalizing of grants in aid of their local expenditure upon road betterment. We hope they may get it. Their claim, at any rate, is an honest one.