THE AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12905, 10 September 1907, Page 9

THE AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS.

VARIOUS THREATS.

(BFfeClAl. tb "THH PBSSS.") AUCKLAND, Septembor 9. ■ The new city by-law providing for Btrap-harig*rs irt traihcars oomee up

for final confirmation, at a meeting of "the' douiicil' lob 6' held on Thursday .j&ejcfc,.,. ;:,..,., : , •; • ■ •.. .:•■.'

Yeeterdayi Mr Rower, secretary of in* Tramways Union tof Employees *ddreesed what wes described ac an "in- % dignation meeting," held on theijtieen street -vrhftHi the proposed action of the Council. In the oouree of bis remarks, he said that the Mayor, Mr Myere, having roted on the »doptioji m the,proposed by-lafrj the Union bad investigated the share register, and had ' ascertained that Mr Myera *ac Ihterestfed ih tiertaih eharee. The Municipal Corporations Act provided that no Mayor or councillors ehould Vote «ti atiy in ifrhieli they had A direct, or indirect, pecuniary intoreet, and if everything else failed, the tJbion intended to test the validity of the by-law, id view, of Mf Myera'e action, Stopford, a member of the Council, Bitd the wprkere must see the tramway men through, and if neceeeary, must aid them, not only with their words, but with their backbone and pursee. He did not, as a rule, advocate physical force, on an occasion like this,, but if the necessity arose, he would be the first to be there. The position nee that the Tramway Company was running the city, and that position must be put on end to. Another speaker suggested that as many of those in (sympathy with the meeting ac possible should attend the next meeting "of the City Council, in order to protest against the confirmation Of the by-law. If two thousand of them attended the meeting, they would be übkt to dettarid that the bt-kw be not piaeed.

A large hutnbdr of those present ■greed to attend the ineeting of the Council on Thursday night.