MONTHLY MEETING OF TRAMWAY BOARD HELD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 13

MONTHLY MEETING OF TRAMWAY BOARD HELD.

The Tramway Board met yesterday: present—Mr A. S. Taylor (chairman), lion J. Barr, M.L.C., Messrs G. T. Booth, J. A. Fleslier, W. J. Walter, J. Wood, H. Pearce, D. Sykes and L. v\ . White. WORKS COMMITTEE. The Works and Traffic Committee reported that the City Council had _ iequested that the board should continue to run the bus service to the Bromley Cemetery on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, under the existing finaiicial airangement with the council. The committee recommended that that should be done. Messrs Andrews and Arps had applied to the licensing authority Heathcote Valley to the city. The b'jard objected to this service, in so tar 51 .. affected the tramway service.-- 1 " fered to consider payment of a subsiu if it was run as a feeder service to the Opawa terminus. The licensing authoritv upheld the board's objection. tnc committee had offered Messrs Andrews and Arps a bonus of one penny for every adult passenger brought to the tram or taken from it at the bpawa tram terminus. The committee had Instttu ted another section on the Avonside bus route, from the terminus to Stanmore Road, fare 3d. Mr D. G. Sullivan had acceded to the board’s request to taac charge of the Tramway Amendment Bill in the House of HepresentatDes. The Bexley clay pit bad received a considerable quantity of spoil fror " tramway trenches, and arrangements were being made l’or it to be treeplanted on the frontage. The timetable last year was published at a loss of £574, sales at 2d each, and the advertisements being insufficient to pay the cost of production to the extent mentioned. The committee had once more supplied the City Engineer with its prospective track renewal works in the current financial year, and following it, as requested, be was arranging his own work accordingly. The committee appreciated the co-operation evidenced between the two local bodies concerned. Years ago, by arrangement with the City Council, a water-tank and tramway water-siding were put into the council’s property at Office Road, under a scheme by which the Tramway Board was watering the public road as well as Its own tracks. The Fire Board, however, had requested the removal of this in order to improve the exit from the fire station of the Hre-plant. The committee was in communication with the City Council on the matter. jlr Sykes asked if the bus service from the Heatncote Valley would have a double shift. The chairman said that the board liad made no conditions as to work. The report was adopted. MISCELLANEOUS. The Town Clerk wrote forwarding a report by the City Engineer on the condition of the Shirley bus route from Hill’s Road to Edward Avenue. The report stated that it was impossible to do anything except to Warden Street, which would be attended to immediately; there was ample room to avoid a high manhole complained of. The letter was received. A motion was passed that a supplementary loan of £2700 should be raised to complete improvements to the board’s undertakings authorised by the 1927 improvement loan of £27,000. Messrs Walter and Wood were appointed to represent the board at a conference in tc Page's Road, at