AUCKLAND TRAMWAY FARES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 4

AUCKLAND TRAMWAY FARES.

NEE© FOR REVISION. SUBURBAN* CLAIMS CRG®. With the object of showjpg tnit tM time for a revision of tramway fares now arrived, Mr. J. W. Sluckeliori. Mayor of Mount Eden, stated at a weting' of the Mount Eden Borough Coupcfl last evening that when the toeil M» ! around the city agreed to the ibckm* in fares in 1920". the Mayor of Auekliwl, Mr. J. H. Gun son, promised thit tin matter would be reconsidered in J# 1921. No meeting was called, and tl« matter, after being left in tbeyiw* until March. 1922, still remained in •trance. Mr. Shackelford eaid they te* that, a reduction in tramwayniea'i *W hid been made, but they had no entf information as to what had been A 0 since the agreement. The members of the council *gP* that it was desirable that * qeeiiii be held to give local bodies the opp* tunity of considering whether uj changes should be made in the preiel scale of fares. Therefore, a resolution was passed, "That the Mayor of Auckland. Mr. J. H. Gunson. be a»k«d imp* diatf :y to call a conference of tl)« «* side local bodies to consider the prtHt* seal* of fares."