TAKAPUNA TRAM AND FERRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 12

TAKAPUNA TRAM AND FERRY.

' COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. 1 .' Tlie Government has set up a Royal ! ! Commission to inquire into matters con- ' i nocted with the Takapuna Tram and • j Kerry Co. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., has I been appointed chairman, and witli hhu •will be associated Mr. Peter Barr, i I a<-cotintnnt. of Dunedin, and Mr. ; Frederick Black, consulting engineer, of ■ | Wellington. The order o£ reference 'came to iband tn-dny. and notification . | lias been forwarded to tbe Takapuna i Tram and Ferry Company, the Taka- • puna Borough Council, and the Taka- • ! puna Ratepayers' Association, that the 7 Commission will sit at the Magistrate's -.Court on Tuesday. 31st hist., at 10.30 ' j o'clock. The Commission is set up to ; inquire wbether the Takapuna Trnm anil ■ 'Ferry Company Ltd., is run at a los-*. 1 nnd if so. whether snc.h loss is due to bad management, or causes beyond the 7 control of the Cnmpanv; (2) can the ! Tratnwav Company, nt tbe scale of fares !-mentioned in tbe (Vder-in-Conneil. be I run without loss by the Company, so as to cottiplv with the provisions of such 7 Orrler-ln-Connci": (31 should the Taka- ' I mum Bornuc 1 : Council nonly for nmend- ' inrr tbe Ordcr-in-Connril. authorising in- ' creased chanres, -what should sucb in-cbivT-es "be? arid (4) as it. involves ]crri*lation to eiable the scale of fees and cbaves wHich fbe Com-nanv 7 is nt orient ,nu*bnr'sorl to cbnrcre. to Tv» amended, even if tlie Ttornnr-b Council .lc p - not n'-.nly "for an nmendino- Orderin Connc". to whit extent should sucb I scale tie increased?