HIGHER FARES?

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 10

HIGHER FARES?

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMS

MEETING > INCREASED COSTS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, December 20.

A deficiency of £2255 in the four weeks' operations of the tramways to November 8 was shown in a report presented to the Tramway Board at a meeting on.Saturday, . The, deficiency during, the "corresponding period last year was £955. : ■;

.The .'substantial fincrease this year was attributed to additional costs causedby the new agreement, restoration 61 cuts,■■and the introduction of the 40-hour week. The - net earnings were £ 3369, and standing charges £5624, leaving, a deficiency of £2255.

Reference, was made later in the meeting' to the proposal of the works and ' traffic committee for slight incrcascs in the fare schedule to meet partially the increased costs caused by the new wages and conditions amounting to more than £26,000 annually. Consideration of this report was deferred until the next meeting.