LAST ELECTRIC CAR
MAORI HILL tram: service DIESEL BUSES TAKE UR RUNNING ( P1'063 AsßOCl.ltlOßl. DUNEDIN, July 2. The Maori Hill electric tramway service, which was inaugurated III) years, ago and which was the first electric .system hi New Zealand, ceased to function from yesterday and the service will in future be conducted by Diesel. Puses. Leaving the junction with, the IWslyn • cable' .'service at, seven, minutes jKi-st three yesterday 'inif tor noon, tho last electrically-driven car to run on (he Roslyn-Maori Hill, route set out on. its li 11 at journey. Tho Mayor, edy councillors, '-and local members of Parliament'/ representatives of local bodies and other'leading citizens' and officials' of the tramway service were on the car, - and its run was watched by many residents from their doors and by cheering pupils of the Kaikovai, School and the Columba, Girls' College. There was a large crowd of. people at the destination at Maori Hill, and ,n t 3.30 o’dock! the doors of the tra m shed we it} closed on the car and the Diesel buses thereupon look up the running of the service. It is interesting to note that the car was driven by ex-Inspcctor Wbolli?yr„ who was a motorman on the day the service was first run.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 8
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