MUNICIPAL PROGRESS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4312, 22 March 1901, Page 5

MUNICIPAL PROGRESS

■ PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN. March 21. ‘ The city , tramways were taken over .by the Corporation to-day. TKe deeds havi ihg been signed, the .Mayors and Council- | lore of the suburban boroughs through which the trams run and others- were, entertained at luncheon by .the City Corporation . and the. tramway directors. Th© Mayor, in the course of a speech, City Council had made a good- deal. If they had not taken'the tram? others would have stepped in. , This .was confirmed by Mr ,(Gr. 'Ejenwick; chairman of directors, who said:’th© company had: an .offer of jE4g;6OO for the trams and could get it tomorrow:-' The Mayor went on to say that Dunedin now had its own water supply; i gasworks, abattoirs, audits own; tramways -1 All that was now wanted to make an ideal i city was.to own the whole property and bei come its own landlord.' He said it in all • seriousness, and did not care if he was calli ed a. Socialist of the deepest dye. Afterl wards the City Councillors-and guests, in ; three decorated , cars. :went over the line, I followed hy about-.twenty cars placed at • the disposal of the public for the rest of r the' afternoon and evening. Free rides - were given. As a matter of fact the cars e were, mostly taken possession of by juvenp iles, who travelled up and down while most 5 of the ordinary travellers had to walk.