WILLIS STREET TRAM SHED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 8

WILLIS STREET TRAM SHED

DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING A SITE.

Referring this morning to the removal of the tramway waiting shed from Upper Willis street at' its junction with Aro street, the Mayor, Mr. R. A. Wright, said" that the council was very fully alive to the desirability of providing a shelter somewhere near the site of the one removed, but it was anything but an easy matter to obtain a site. The old waiting shed had to go when the land at the back of it changed hands and the new owner objected to it, and so far efforts to obtain permission from property owners to rebuild had not been successful, and without that permission the council could not erect another shelter. An offer had. been made to buy one piece of land in order that a waiting shed could be provided, but the owner declined to sell. It might be that the council could provide resting seats without consulting property owners, but that would not meet the difficulty of offering shelter to tramway passengers in bad weather.