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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 6

The Postal authorities have received advjco from Sydney that the Physa, which left Newcastle on the 22nd instant for Auckland, carries a small* inai" for Wellington. A paragraph telegraphed from "Wellington, which appeared in Friday's Christchurch papors, relative to the comparative cost of tram cars in Wellington and Qhristchurch, was not quite accurate in stating that the cost in Christchurch is nbout £5000 each as compared with £4000 in Wellington (states the "Press'). Mr. Frank Thompson, general manager of the Christchurch Tramways, informed a reporter that, the hist fifteen cars obtained by the board cost at the r*te of £4577 each. This price was- pajd for caw with steel body, eeuttng accommodation for 48 passenger?., separate apartment for motorman, four motor equipments, iutematte rein*>i«> control for coupled' Car operation, ■■ cload man's handle, air brakes, with emergency feature so that brakes can ba applied from any position in the car. and 26----mch wheel tracks (with consequent low steps for passenger to board or allstit from cars)/ Mr. Thompson expressed the opinion that taking the car equipment into consideration, the - Wellington cars were in reality more expensive than those built in Christchurch. The Wellington cars_, he understood, have only two motor equipments and. maximum traction tracks, involving hiph steps for passengers to board or alight from cars. A huge assortment of Classy Ties for men of ta«te in tho Men's Department, at Ku-k^aldie and. Stains, lAd. The very newe»t designs in Ties -thst look well and wear well.—Advt. " Bonningtoo's Iriih Mosg |b niitle !o a tjm«.pj;oved iormulu by fn]Jy"(iua]if»ed pharmacists. It is a remedy and a preventive. 2s 6d and Is 6d, everywhere.—Advt. *