LINWOOD TRAM PASSENGERS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15955, 17 July 1917, Page 6

LINWOOD TRAM PASSENGERS.

TEMPORARY SHELTER IN THE SQUARE. MORE DIFICULTIES. The City Council, in a letter received at yesterday's meeting of tho Tramway Board, gave its consent to the erection of a temporary shelter in Cathedral square for tramway passengors in the vicinity of. the Bank of New Zealand. Tho Council, however, stipulated that there should bo provided a passage, four feet wide, between the back of the shelter and tho building line, and that tho overhang of tho sheltor should be extended four feet* making eight feet in all. Arrangements would ho made for tho removal of tbo telephone box. The chairman (Mr C. M. Gray): That is not what we wanted; that shelter ifi no good to us. We decided that we did not want a passage behind tho shelter, the manager of tho Bank of New Zealand told the General Manager that he would not listen to such a proposal for a single momont. This practically blocks the thing. It is feared that the passage behind the shelter would lead to a nuisanco.

Tho-Hon. J'. Bnrr: A\~h:it is tho necessity for this passage. The chairman thought that tho City Council must have misunderstood tho plans and thought that the shelter was to lie closed in.

Mr J. A. Fleslicr was inclined to think that the City Council's viow was right. Tho erection of tho shelter would possibly have the effect of pushing ordinary foot traffic on to the roadway. Tho General -Manager (Mr F. Thompson) said that lie had seen the manager oi tho Bank regarding the directors' consent to the erection of the shelter, and was informed that the consent had been givon and had been forwarded to the Bank's solicitors together with the Board's draft agreement. When he (Mr Thompson) mentioned tho City Coirarir.s requirements, tho manager of the Bank said ifc_ would bo verv objectionable—it might bo used *as a screen for those_ attempting to enter tho Bank's promises, it might be used for improper purposes, and from the point of view_ of pedestrians it was neither one thing nor the other—four feet did not give much room for people to pass.

It was decided, on the motion of tbo Hon. J. Barr, seconded by Mr H. : Pearce. to ask the City Council to reconsider -the matter, and receive a deputation on it, consisting of the chaiiTnan of the Board and the General Mahager. |

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