THE TRAMWAY DIFFICULTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 169, 17 July 1907, Page 6

THE TRAMWAY DIFFICULTY.

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COSEPAKLSOKS WITH OTECEK' SYSi XT I - At jesiterday's meeting of .the JSnaa- : ' Committee of the City Uouncil, ttieCiS >Ir. W. _E. Bush, a report on the tranrway question. Muji- : discussion took place pn the subject"aa* ; . as a result several recommendation J: will be made at' the next meeting iV\ the City Council on Thursday. ' uderstood that the elude suggestions that a. demand be' Bit*" on the l!ramway Company to jsSt' : < a number of additional cars before 4i». end of the year, and a further nambe during next year. It is also undeigtiJoj' that a recommendation -wjfl bi: " : to the effect that the by-lawbe'io jj. tered as to permit of nine ers" being carried in each ear!-V^-

Mr. Bush, has prepared a statemeit giving all statistics in regard ■ to' th« number of tiram3, total number."and average ptr car load of and-jhg ear mileage of some "of the •wqrld'iT'lkrzest iraruway systems. It is shovnrthat the Auckland trams carried a iarget number of passengere per car;'thai-in any other of the systems mentioned, and, considering the number of . cktt-- tie • total number of passengers-- ■ : much' greater. The Auckland ■- carried 21404,651 passengers in 1806, ■which, -with 56 cars, works ..out.--it-M■';; average of 376,568 per car. ■ Jfi-.ttgpi. to the number of passengers' per-'mite per car, .Auckland stands second **$b 33,828, the Wellington system aloßft-ir. eeeding it 34,252.•'"•DunedjmWdtSW.' ears carried 10,230,424 paeseogeit' in 233,266 per car, and Tvith a ! mileage ? -'-gsr' car of 25,940. On aa average -in''AuckJand there are enough passengers-. r ie Jill each seat 21.16 times per day.'" -TKe highr est average per car is -. S7G,B6S .passengers, and next; to jt)ceeee East Ham with 361,107, -next. agaiftV&i.' ford Corporation with 357,329;;iHd,thi s : London -County Council ~ -with 353,729. Same great systems carry /'.veiy-i m»ny less per car—as Lisbon, 173,442; Bel.' fast, 57,052; Bradford, 189/37fc J Bristol 195,233,; the Chilian E.T., '■ cars and a total of over 60 mllli6ii:«p- y Eengers); Dublin, ■ 367#42~i <Qiasjww/ 265,721,-Hull, 239,046; and Haacheifcer 247,092: .' -> ."• /'; :^i^''; r ■';/'■ - ' At last night's meeting- <if ;ihe braaich of the Liberal and .'Lftiioijrifi<i«a. tion, the tramway difficulty •witli some ■wa.pnth: -• " .??"•■> The , chairman, Mr Lundonjt'aii hi could, trtgtance residents had been 'im justly ■tteaM-by reason of the men's'action^ patablyjaibi case of a young ladyv from, Onetonp, who had been assisting in the -prodjießw of "SJaritana.^ , and who, having 1 Beat turned off the. last ear to that' place, a, ■was. forced to a cab at a cost of 15/, although she had the return half of the tram tickete. in her:.. ppctet. ._, Bβ moved :| "That, in the opimun; of of the Federatkin,: ihft ac&oa.. of ■the Tramway Union in universally enforcing a bylaw which- is- Bofcii'-icnpee in'Parnell, is :'nbt justifiablei" 1 ' . » .-* -.— ;• ■ :■-•. :■ -. ' Mr W. the motion "on the ground that the men "were -jviss&fe&- v ia carrying out regulations -which the Gitj; Council -woulinofc-ienforce. The roa':on« . derstood:; that the .award of.'ArflpJ^oe. ■-;'.' Courfcyas^ : filial.'. menace; to b.uman_.life.. If v fined- foi; h^l'ti>-pajj up themselves. ■ . ... ' * :■■' Mr IfOndpn: no.'prot*' cution ior r nine yxxtonttos, past, ", " ■■' '. ■ ■ .-'. ■■ Mr Cjiffe;. stn. aineeimejit Uμ , effect "That the meeting endorse the: action of the. Tramway .IJnion." *; Aftei- seyeiral njembers ha 4 spoken fof',and against the"motibnj ; it wea: resolved ; that, as no united action- could be takea by tl»a meeting, both motion aniii : amend- . ment should be ■'withdraCwn. OCTREE Hllii, At the meeting l Qne-tree vHill Roar.d Board-, last the circulai! letter, sent by the seerefoxyottiieTnjp-: ■way Employees' i Unipn to all local was read. , The Teaolyed^-' "That the Board », " ceipt of >Ir. Itogse^vletter;.«iid iaiok*. . him that iefore the passuig, of Mi union's resolutions it- had,, ia. ■ with other suburban local bodies, takes' steps with a. view to remedying .tit* • eyila complaifled' of, to wbidi end JWi'M' joirrnci conference will be'ljfild.biC ■day next, 19th inst;, to'recerre aj>d fifPl. iato effect the opinions of tte. eoliijtart to the conferance on, ijie ■■'