MOUNT ROSKILL MATTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 7

MOUNT ROSKILL MATTERS.

TRAMWAY EXTENSION WANTED. I TITK RATEPAYERS ICKF.X. ] A mop', inp of the Mount 'RoskMl R-He- ! payers' AswieUtion. held last night, was 'attended by a.bont fifteen member*. Mr. ■ <!. W.-Saunders (viee-prc*idcnt) .being in 1 tile ciia i r. j The chairman imiuirod what the Road I Board had done in roimfrtion with the I tramways. .Mr. Wnnlward stated that ,-tho offer of iht» Tramway Company did ' not impress the Road Hoard members favourably when it was received at tie lata meeting. In fact, the memWrs emphatically turned it down. Incidentally, several of the members, during '..he dir;cussiun. indituted a preference for puttins the n/aj.s in pood ord.-r for :l motor ■bus service, that ought to be sibsklised. The Chairman: What were the terms submitted .by the trannvav Coinpany^ Mr. AVootfward stated tli.u the terms were ra.the.r complicated, but. chiefly. the Tramway Company required a subtidy of iMIi.OOO odd to cover the e<wt of the extension of the lin<« From the present trmini of the Dominion Rond t-n .MotiTit Albert Road, part of the cost of rolling s-too-k. and estimated los* on the services for the next twelve years. There was also a provision that should the main tram system be taken over, the Board should take over th.ie ecetion of the Fyritem, beinff allowed a. certain amount for rollim: stock. The terms said nothtnjr whatever of the palmont of any -bonus ti th P Board should the Pervices pay before the twelve years, which was a stipulation which .the deputation from the Board had very etron<r!y urfred on the Company in approaching it for an offer. The chairman remarked that the eoist of puttiTiir roads in order for a nio-tor "biipt service -would amount to about .tIO.OOO. 'lie thought that the Boar.l should make counter-proposals to the Tramway Company. After some freneral discussion the following resolution -w-as oarried: "That a remit be forwarded to the Board, as the question of transit ifi a burning one in this district, that the Board Rhould. without delay, consider same, oiUier in the way of fresh proposals tn the Tramway Company, or the installation of motor-I)ns Fervicre." The chairman asked what the financial position of the Road Board "»"ae. .Mr. Khackleton said that lie. was at ■the last meeting of the Board, and his inrpression was that there was a deficiency of £900. I iMr. Woodward <«iid that Uiere bad been outetaridincr accounts not phown on the .baJanre-eheet, and he understood I that they about β-wallowed up the £1.000 i overdraft that had Y>een arranged for by I the Board.