Shelters in the Square.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 9 December 1930, Page 10

Shelters in the Square.

It is not easy to understand why the City Council should be willing to give any consideration at all to the proposal that it should share with the Tramway Board the cost of building new shelters in the Square for tramway purposes. If shelters for waiting tramway passengers are wanted anywhere it is the duty of the Tramway Board to provide them ns part of its ordinary equipment, end it is utterly wrong that any local authority should spend ratepayers' money to relieve another authority of part of its responsibilities. If the shelters in the Square are intended to lie a kind of general resting and meeting place for citizens as well as accommodation for waiting tramway passengers, the Council should be frank and say so. Even then the proposed expenditure by the Council on the new tramway shelters cannot be justified. The Council has already, at very heavy expense, acquired a building in the Square as a rest room for womeh and children, and if any further sitting out places are wanted for inen they can be provided without building octagonal stone pagodas.