TRAMS OR BUSES?
VICTORIA AVENUE SERVICE
RATEPAYERS PROTEST. . \\hen copies of resolutions carried at a representative meeting of Remuera ratepayers protesting at the "threat levelled at the Victoria Avenue tram service" by the Auckland Transport Board were received by the City Council last evening they were accompanied by a request that the council give its support >to having the service retained and not substituted by a bus service. The Mayor moved that a reply be sent that the matter did not come within the council's jurisdiction. ' Mr. D. Donaldson paid that anything that concerned the residents of the city area should be the interest of the City Council, and he did not agree that tiie possibility of the tram service being substituted in Victoria Avenue by a bus service was not within the council's jurisdiction. Ho moved an amendment that the matter be referred to the finance committee with power to act.
Messrs. J. B. Paterson and E. J. Phelan spoke in support of the amendment, and Miss Melville said that the council should be supplied with more details of what the Transport Board was considering in regard to the Victoria Avenue service.
Mr. Donaldson's amendment that the matter be referred to the finance cojumittee with power to act was carried.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1934, Page 8
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211TRAMS OR BUSES? Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1934, Page 8
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