TRAMWAY REGULATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 17 July 1911, Page 2

TRAMWAY REGULATIONS

GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE CONDEMNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Saturday. The Mayor of Wanganui, interviewed concerning, the tramway regulations, spoke, strongly against them, and expressed the opinion that such far-reach-ing proposals should onlv be made by Act of Parliament, and riot oil 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 capable as the Government of seeing that the system was properly run and that the employees and the public were fairly treated. In ease the regulations were enforced in Wanganui a huge deficit would be created, which would probably have to be met by increasing the fares, while it would be ruinous to the suburban districts of Gonville and Wanganui East, which were installing trams and paying the borough at per car mile for power. The Mayor of Wanganui East and the chairman of the Gonville Tramway Board concur, and say that the regulations would be absolutely disastrous to their services, and people would be. unable to bear the extra burden entailed. The chairman of the Gonville Board says that the regulations will prohibit the installation of trams in the smaller towns which at present are considering the question.