TRAMWAY REGULATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 122, 15 July 1911, Page 6

TRAMWAY REGULATIONS.

(Per Press Association.) Wanganui, July 15. The Mayor of Wanganui, interviewed concerning the tramway regulations, spoke strongly against them and expressed the opinion that such far-reaching proposals should only he made by Act of Parliament and not on the sole responsibility of the Minister for Public Works. They took too much power out of the hands of local bodies, who were just as tapable as the Government of seeing that the system was properly run and that the employees' and the public wore fairly treated. In the case of Wanganui the enforcement of the regulations would create a huge deficit which would probably have to he met by increasing the fares, while it would he ruinous to the suburban districts of (Jonvillo and Wanganui East; which were installing trams and paying to the borough at per car mile for power. The Mayor of Wanganui East and the chairman of the Gonville Tramway Board concur and say the regulations would he absolutely disastrous to their services and people would be unable to bear the extra burde • entailed. The chairman ,o( trio G'lnnl'e Board says the regulat;( \s will pel il.il the installation of trams in the smaller towns which me tit Cblisldeflltg illo qilfistioil.