PAPATOETOE INTERESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 11

PAPATOETOE INTERESTS.

NEW SUBWAY PROPOSED. TRAFFIC UNDER RAILWAY LINE. Tho Papatoetoe Welfare League has appointed a deputation to wait on the Papatoetoe Town Board to urge the construction of a traffic subway at the railway line, on the west tide of the town. In advocating the work, Mr. J. Thompson said it was desirable to have the scheme carried out while unemployed labour was offering. He felt that the district was not utilising the relaef workers to best advantage. The subway would be a permanent work that, would save the town considerable expense if it were constructed now.

In deciding to support the Manukau Canal scheme, the league agreed to recommend to the Harbour Board that the preliminary excavation work be put in hand immediately. If this were done at tho Otahuhu end .of the Tamaki waterway, the filling could be sold for factory sites in the vicinity at a price sufficient to defray the cost of a steam navvy and other plant. The Minister of Railways, tho Hon. W. A. Veitch, advised that it was the department's intention to replace* tho carriages on suburban trains . fitted with longitudinal seats with others of an im proved type. Acting on complaints that the trams from Auckland to the new railway station were not running to schedule and were causing passengers to miss trains, the league decided to make representations to the Transport Board on the matter.