GOVERNOR AND CITIZENS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 927, 21 September 1910, Page 6

GOVERNOR AND CITIZENS.

' ———frPROMISED; POPULAR INNOVATION.:The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.) had an interesting interview with his Excellency' Lord Islington yesterday morning, in regard- to the best means of making' Government ■ House accessible to a large body of.citizens. at the different functions and entertainments to .be held ; from time' to tune as soon as the prescribed per-' iod_ of,. Court mourning: forhis late • Majesty King Edward VII has expired.; His Exoellency expressed himself de- ■ sirous of having the' attendance at these events' as thoroughly representa- ■ ( .tive _of tie people of Wellington.-as can - 1 possibly bo attained, , and tn fii'is . rospect 'contemplates • enlarging their scope much beyond anything that obtained : during the ' regimes ': of his r pro-. decessors. lo this end the means of transit to and_ from the city proper caine under review. The difficulties inevitable I .'in.. regard to cabmen, and their • fares—especially.,in' respect; . to":';enter-..,-tainments held at nights—were fliscussed and it was. considered possible that on special occasions of the kind a threominute.'tram service,might;-be arranged in conjunction with-a servioe of brakes at popular prices on. wet nights,'; fromy Government House entrance to the residence itself; , The v matter - is at'" present;' in the hands, of the Mayor who hopes' ' to enyolvo a workable.scheme. , "