TRAFFIC IN WELLINGTON
EQUIPMENT FOR CONTROL COUNCIL'S EXTRA COST (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Decisions to limit the number of vehicles licensed to carry goods to 500. to place £SO on the estimates for loud speaker equipment for traffic control, and to spend not more than £IOOO on the equipment required for vehicle inspection were made by the Wellington City Council last night.
Additional costs amounting to £6OOO a year have been loaded on to the Wellington Corporation tramways 1 as a result of tho council's adoption of the wage rates for tramwaymeii engaged on Sunday duty. The council fixed the rate for motormen at 4s lOd an hour and conductors at 4s B£d. The men will work shifts of 10 hours every third Sunday, so that the rates will be £3 8s 4d and £2 7s Id respectively. The new rates will be retrospective to July 1, 1936.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 4
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