THE SQUARE.
AGREEMENT REGARDING SHELTERS. TWO TO BE BUILT. Agreement has beea uriTed it regarding the sites asi ehmeter of t&i shelters for waiting tram; ptfaeigsuin Cathedral square, between wprew»(*. tives of the City Council way Board. The details ot tka ip» ment are subject to the approval cttai bodies. The proposal at first eoaadafrf providing for four shelters up* the north and to tha sooth i» 1 western entrance to the Catit&L* been abandoned, and two sta j been selected, one to the noitkuifc 1 other to the south of the eiistugiislt The eastern end of the akete will face north, is almost is • Est*3 the back of_ the present stnti* Roughly it will be about 21ft wife® about 50ft in length, the wesi«s ei being almost in a line witk tie eriai» to the underground conTpkatei & proposed new shelter, fscnsg be a replica of the ont fuisf *■& The site of neither will fflMMsdi the boundaries of the eludes the railed-in plot «a wjj Godley statue formerly stwA lt.~ be recalled that the reserw is is somewhat like the outline plane, the wing portion Ww «JJ eastern end, facing the the new shelters will be w western boundaries of the f" of the reserve. _ . . The new shelters, it is ootoflWi be octagonal in shape ana wfflj* »» of Halswell stone, and fiwW Oamaru stone. The apportMßM" the cost between the City the Tramway Board has upon by the representatives « ; bodies, and the new sh«««* «** . erected and ready for m« b T_ , when, according to the Supreme Court, the present be removed.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 14
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