THE KELBURN TRAM
PURCHASE PROPOSAL DEFEATED.
The proposal for the purchase of the Kelburn cable tramway was defeated by an almost three-to-one majority. Four returns are not to hand, but they cannot possibly affect the issue, which was placed beyond doubt at tfie majority of the booths. Northland and one Karori booth were' the only booths at . which the purchase was favoured. Of the total of 23,557 ratepayers on the roll about 10,000 exercised their votes. Detailed polling is as follows:—
For Against Northland .' 93 82 St. Paul's Schoolroom ... 46 71 Jenkins's Store, Karori ... 81 70 Ngaio ...: 53 •HI Farmers' Institute f76 155 Seatoun 43 117 Kelburn Pres. Church ... 29 . 86 Worser Bay 7- 16 Kilbirnie Hall .....: 60' 181 Bethune's -.:....:.... 153. 356 Kelburn Kiosk 79 311 Kaiwarra 13 35 Lyall Bay 59 142 Oddfellows' Hall 70 171 Washington avenue 52 133 Khaudallah .' 78 113 St. Thomas' Hall 176 482 Wadestown 55 138 Town Hall .......:........;...: 585 1297 Hataitai 180 376 Kearney's Tea Rooms, Tinakori road 22 51 Borough Office. Miramar 15 61 Queen's Wharf 40 106 Maranui Hall 60 180 Karori Council Chambers 88 118 Harcourt's 143 324 Ohiro road • 47 ' 114 Alexandra Hall 89 255 Brooklyn 79 311 Adelaide road 22 134 Cambridge terrace 166 396 Eoseneath 28 79 Miramar Town Hall 43 136 2810 6570 Majority against 3760
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 27 April 1923, Page 8
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219THE KELBURN TRAM Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 27 April 1923, Page 8
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