WAITING FOR RAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 1

WAITING FOR RAILS

TRANSPORT BOARD’S NEW UNDERTAKING WORKLESS MEN ANXIOUS So anxious are unemployed men 0 this city to get work on the fK° JeCte<l tramwa y extensions that the transport manager, Mr. A. E. °rd, has had scores of applica'oan* Bince tbe sanction of the Fon^* 1 * 11 tWO bours this morning Mr. ‘Th,,„ re< i? ive d no fewer than 15 men. allJ 5" 't’t'Rsd fine, honest fellows, orthy of a job. If it can possibly ttid° ne w ill be given work,” he

lost °ugh the Transport Bo'.rd has wav w h - moment in getting under had = . its Programme and in fact loan ® ntlc 'P ate d the carrying of its tionn K. P ° sals bj preparing Specifictithe De - ore hand, it is not possible for trarta , cav ' ation work for the new °{ August besun betore the middle advfe^n 18 are now a " busy cabling for their t 0 tbe earliest possible date ncipals could deliver rails and a fe», 10n of su PPl>' has been made marked’® °5 tendering.” Mr. Ford rebe '' ln any case no rails will .„,‘* ' a i>ie before September.” truieod ."hy it was not possible to tor the Jtnntediately with excavations out th.tw i s ’ tbe nianagcr pointed allowed Y f L ons ,r enches were cut and ; ug the a' 0 -® 1 * w ith storm-water pend-after-ofr,,” 1 ' 3 * of ttle rai * s very serious the j,, , Ct ? w °uld be suffered when ha , d been laid - Owing to "hich y O , O tbe foundation sub-soil bfcade. ad v not been disturbed for !1 >e wci'-l* dence of the rails under 'aialy'follow ot tramcars w-ould cer-