LEAGUE MEETING AT MIRAMAR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 90, 19 April 1929, Page 11

LEAGUE MEETING AT MIRAMAR

Several .of .the Civic League candidates addressed, electors at Miramar last evening. Mr."'J. C. Crawford was' in the'chair..:'. ."' r . . .

Mr. A.''C. Blake said, that" for, some time past there had Tbeen a widespread dissatisfaction "..with".' the bus service, and with "the overcrowding of tho trains, at rush iipiirs. .'lf. there. were proper co-ordination between.the. two service's, much of ...tho -ov.ercrowding'.could ■- be avoided- ' It" "tho/,bus service .. were placed .under, special .'.expert . manage: ment, uridof. anianwhosb duty.it .would bo to r.un"fhe"buses; more'for'.the con-" vonienco' of" thc/peoplo than to' pile up -profits on the tram service, buses'would become more-popular, and reach a paying point. -ISpmo; of the bus services, it was known, did not pay ; when, considered separately 'from- the whole trans-' port pbi.ftt pf '.yioyrj '.. but neither did some of the. trani' sections'pay when taken separately. But these services, when judiciously used as feeders, indirectly increased \tho.total revenue Mr. T.-' .Fqrsytti. ,'saic! that'ho. .had served six. years tin..the council, in. the past, arid during,that time lie had always done his best for,.the city.. If he were again roturnedxhe would give the ratepayers of his/best and s.erve :. them; i&rtnfiilrr. He had had considerable

experience in dealing-with local bodies, and was at- .present,; chuirrnan of .tho Education Board.. So far as the trams and buses were-,concerned, Mr. Forsytb. said that ho bqlieyod.they., should work in together.for, the-convenience of the public and bo part and parcel of each other. Speaking of the. eastern access tunnel, Mr. Forsytli ■ said that, when chairman of the ■ Works' Committee of the- City! Council .>,.ho-.had : .fought hard trf have tho loan put -on..,the schedule for the work,.which was very necessary. He -wanted \to 'seo'tho ; tunnel cut straight through-tho hill, for it would be not .only' a'gre'at kenofit to the eastern suburbs, but also ;to, the whole of Wellington. . .'.,

Mr. E. O.'. Thornton ami Mr. W. T. Hildreth also spoke' on the policy of the Civic League... • ...'.\ .; :

Councillor .11.. Scmple, speaking at Miramar last, night, gave an address on similar lines to. that by him at Hataitai the ■ previous night. lie referred- : specially to the .question of access to. the Eastern Suburbs and the City Council's inconsistency in dealing with that matter. --. ...