TRAMWAY SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 124, 25 May 1920, Page 4

TRAMWAY SERVICE.

I JaOUJIT JU>EIPS BEQUIKEKEBTt,

iWTDE RANGE REVIBWEII!,

A wide range of tramway discussed by the Mt. Eden Boroufc Council bet evening.

Mr. E. H. Potter raised the quasti™ of concessions, and stressed the import. ance of the Council seeing that then* agreed to should be absolutely legal M d not liable to revision 'by a futur* council. Mr. J. W. Shackelford advocated a further coneerence of local bodies to press the matter. Thij »„ embodied in a resolution, which «at passed, and it wae further decided. t» seek information from the council'eeeiiek tor as to whether the concessions can fe mentioned in the deed of delegation, In respect to thie matter it in*y h. mentioned that the deed of deleg»tie> specified a tramway fare, and that m going to "be altered by the consent of different local bodies so as to prorifo for 85 per cent coming off the ticket It is this .that the Council desire to hin embodied in the deed.

A reply was read from the Qtt Council in regard to the suggestion th«t transfer tickets should be issued t» enable passengers by second section tvt on the Dominion Road route to without further payment. The C% Council advieed that the proposal «m impracticable, as it would dettm check. A remedy would in th« duplication of the line. After co»i4g», tion it 'was decided to request that eem means be found of remedying the isjustice.

That the Council are in full eympttjw with the proposal was the deekion come to in respect to letters from tl« Returned Sokliera' Association and tba Onehanga Borough Council support to the proposal that free tramway passes be issued to diatMeJ soldiers.

A suggestion that from seven o'ekni on Sunday evenings all oars on Ikimiaioe and Mount Eden Road aeetuat should ran to the terminus v* approved and embodied in a mota)% which was carried. The mover, Shackelford expressed the view that there were too many section can.