TRAM SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 25362, 14 August 1935, Page 7

TRAM SERVICE

EXTENSION TO KEW HOSPITAL.

CONSIDERATION BY COUNCIL.

The Trading Committee of the City Council will give consideration to the question of extending the tram service to the new hospital at Kew, as a result of a notice of motion from Councillor G. E. T. Dorman carried at last evening’s meeting of the council. The public hospital was their most important institution as far as traffic was concerned. Councillor Dorman said in moving: “That in view of the population already in that part of the city, coupled with the fact that the hospital will shortly be in operation at Kew and that the tram line could be extended over the railway without the necessity of incurring the expense of a crossing-keeper, and the council having already acquired certain sections to enable Conon Street to be extended, thb Trading Committee be directed, to consider and report upon the question of extending the tram service along Conon street to the Kew Hospital.” He added that people should be able to take the present tram service and . go straight to the hospital without incurring the expenditure of going on to a bus. If buses were run over that section the Trading Committee would lose considerable revenue.

The council then considered recommendations from the Trading Committee regarding a proposed motor omnibus service from the Post Office to Kew Hospital as, follows: “The committee again considered a further application from Mr L. C. Thompson for the right to run a motor omnibus service from the Post Office to the new hospital at Kew. Recommend (a) that the council raise no objection to the service, provided that to avoid undue competition with the trams, the route be along Bluff road to O’Hara Street, .thence "to Ythan Street, Elizabeth Street and along this street to Elies Road, and subject to the minimum fare being 3d, and (b) that the Transport Board be informed in terms of the above recommendation.” It was resolved that the letter to the Transport Board be held up in the meantime.

The following further notice of motion from Councillor Dorman was also referred to the Trading Committee: “That in order to avoid the necessity in all cases of changing at the Post Office, the Trading Committee be requested to consider revising the system in such a manner as to enable each alternative tram from V.’aikiwi to proceed through to South Invercargill, and each alternate tram from North Invercargill to proccdd through to Georgetown, and vice versa in both cases.”