CHANGEOVER TO BUSES
Union Accepts Offer (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 31. The Wellington City Council’s transport department completed the change from trams to oneman buses on the Lyall Bay route today. An official said tonight that everything went “according to plan.” The last tram left the suburban terminus at midnight last night- It was festooned and carried a capacity load of passengers.
The Wellington Tramways Union decided to operate the oneman bus service to Lyall Bay after accepting the offer of the employers to refer to a disputes committee the whole question of one-man operation as soon as possible.
The secretary of the union (Mr P. A. Hansen) when he announced this after a special meeting in the Trades Hall yesterday, said he had been assured by the employers’ representative (Mr M. N. Manthel) that a disputes committee .would be set up without delay and would give a decision as soon as possible. Mr Hansen said it was impossible in the circumstances to call a full meeting of the union’s membership and the decision to accept the offer was made by the management committee.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29271, 1 August 1960, Page 10
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