EXTENDING THE TRAMS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 5

EXTENDING THE TRAMS

MAYOR'S NOTTCES OF MOTION. PROPOSALS FOR NEW COUNCIL. The Mayor, Mr J. Yigor Brown, has givon notice3 at tlie rcquest of tlie members of the Te Awa Citizens League, to move at the next meetnig of the City Council tlie following niotions : — (1) That the borough engineer and the borough electrical engineer be instructed to jirepare without delay : (a) Estimates of the cost of extending tlie tramwav system from the present Hastings street terminus to the Boys' High School ; (h) estimates of the cost of a tram service from the Hastings street crossing to the Thackeray street depot, by wav of Yigor Brown street. (2) That upon the conipletion of the preparation of the proposed estimates by the borougli oflicials, and suhject to their approval bv the council, steps be taken immediately to secure the sanction of Ihe Local Governnient Loans Board to suhmit to tlie ratepayers a nroposal to raise a loan for the carrying out of tlie tramwav extensions ahove juoposed. (3 That the engineers prepare an estiinate of a sulnvay under the railway line at tlie Hastings street railwav crossing: also an cstimate of the cost ot a tracklcss tram from the end oi our present tramways system in Hastings street south to Ellison street and thcn to Thaekeray strcet depot, hy way of Nelson Crescent and \'igor Brown street.