THE TRAMWAY SERVICE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—As a contribution to the discussion on the question why the city trams are not paying on . Sundays, I would mention, the hill tram on Sundays connects with a bus, which, judged by. its performances, must, be Cif about 10 horse-power. After about 60 people have crushed in, the driver,'growling all the while about beiitg late, the bus starts with a disconcerting jump. After it has lurched and bumped from pothole to pothole, it usually stops a little-way past the Robin Hood quarry, when the youths and'other gentry have to aid its progress over the summit. With much rasping of gears, etc., it continues its progress at about-10 miles per hour, until some fortunate individual rings a bell, or, if the bell rope is broken, as it is apt to be, calls out for it to stop, which it does in an inch or so of mud. Instead of this, if. the tram were running, its patrons might have some hope of. getting in. comfort Instead of being bruised and bumped about in a rickety old bus.— I am, etc., * .• Hill Resident, Dunedin, August ,2.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 28
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191THE TRAMWAY SERVICE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 28
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