TRAMWAY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 4

TRAMWAY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

■ * PETITION' FROM EMPLOYEES. In view of recent events interest attaches to tho fact that soma four hundred tramway employees of tho City Council petitioned that body a few weeks ago, and asked, in cllcct, that tho management of tho traihways should continue as at prosent, and that no new traffic manager should bo brought in from outside. No public reference has been made to tho petition at any meeting , of the council, and, so far as can lie ascertained, no reply was sont bo tho petitioners It appoa,rs that the petition did not emanate from tho executive of tho-Tramways Union, but represented a private effort on the pirt of the tramway employees. Practically the whole of these men signod the petition. The town clerk (Mr. J. ]!. Palmer) was asked yesterday whether tho council hud cntertainod, or had definitely rejected, (he petition. Ho replied that it had been ' received" and simply passed aside. It would not come up in any order of business, and presumably nothing would be done 111 regard to it. It may Co mentioned that the petition . was handed in prior to tho last meeting of tho council, at which the Mavor (Jlr. T. M. Wilford) presided, before leaving for England.