TRAM BOARD SEEKS RELIEF
COSTLY MAINTENANCE OF ROADS.
PETROL TAX SHARE SUGGESTED.
By Telegraph. —Press Association
Christchurch, Last Night.
The Christchurch Tramway Board approached the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, to-day with a request for a share of the revenue from the petrol tax as a measure of relief from the burden imposed upon the board of maintaining the tram tracks and the roadway on either side and between the rails which was used extremely by motor-vehicles. The board asked to be relieved of the obligation to maintain the roadway between double tracks. The board was making a loss of £lO,OOO yearly. It cost the board £20,000 yearly to maintain the tracks. Tho Minister said he had considered the matter and had already drafted a letter to the Christchurch City Council on the subject .of the board’s claim. He thought it was just although perhaps the board had no legal rig’A it what it asked. He hoped the matter could be settled speedily.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1929, Page 9
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