RACING SIGNBOARD ON ROADWAY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14572, 16 January 1948, Page 2

RACING SIGNBOARD ON ROADWAY

APPLICATION BY m COMPANY

Sightseeing Trips p n ., n .Tourists i

Discussion By Borough Council

With a view to getting the t W er< ranga Borough Council to reconMp its decision not to permit Tw+h Tauranga Bus Service KtW signboard on the roadway aw?. °* ° tourists to the company's Jv w ° 11 seeing vehicle, a representative'W#' the company, Mr E. RowEjßu waited on the council a f>£Lo monthly meeting. dl mT Mr Rowlands told the c „ 1# U that the company had no SH 1 ' means of directing tourists <fe?'!•*•*' to go sightseeing, and he was a| c oH ( making application for a sign t ■ • permitted en the roadway "J 1,,,. pointed out that it was the intern-K to place this signboard on the way from 8 a.m. until 2 p. m . onSbOtone day in the week, and the &W pany was receiving applj Cat > . from tourists to go en sightxSP l trips all the "time. Their comclafbott was that the service was not adwlir tised enough. %du The Parking Committee mended to the council that it reft** l3 * 1 consent to the placing of the S board on the roadway. . a '|ort Cr E. H. Drew informed tJP V council that the committee kill' made a suggestion to the coniDaV* ir that the sign be suspended fw: ' shop veranda, but' when apphW' ■ for permission to do this was mS < it was turned down. ■ W The view that the suggests sinl$ inl the Mayor (Mr L. P, lffigMg that the sign be erected on lit opposite side of the road, on the JE of a building, with an arrow pop ing in the right direction was a eoJfi one, was voiced by Cr T. F. Gonnß The Mayor stated that the couJB could not authorise the placing 1 W an obstruction on a street. p,. s Cr D. B. Livingstone drew atteiJlr tion to the fact that Tauranga drHn-6 a tremendous lot of tourists, and -ittles sign would be the only way to 'T£ people know from where the si*£oUi seeing bus departed. He said WB would like to see something | not in the interests of the bus cotJuld pany, but in the interests of coming to the town. "^es Cr Connor stated that V did J'tb« agree that a sign on the i was the only way to advertise, 'all A statement that he noticed igke. company's buses carried consider able advertising and he thought tir if it advertised its own service thJll should solve the difficulty, was madi ,e by Cr A. Fleming. stn An amendment, moved by Cr sn|$ n | T. Stenhouse, that the council ii. form the company that it. wo'iji | have no objection to it having areß™ movable disc sign on the footpattr was supported by Cr Livingston;!? l '' and carried pi