DISTRICT NEWS
JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Om 1 Secclof Correspondents.) PALMERSTON MORTN, The Borough Council readied finality on the question of its tramway system at a special meeting on Wednesday, when, by a votes to 3, it decided to take a poll for a £50,000 Joan for tho Edison (storage battery system. The scheme provides for an extensive service as previously decided on, and abandons the previous council's subway under the Square. The trams will not cross tho railway at all, a system of transfers being relied on. The «i> gineer estimated tlial tho installation costs would beStorage' battery • system—Four cars and eight miles of lino £47,000. Overhead system, £80,000. Tilling Stevens' petrol clectric system, £45,000. Running costs were estimated as Under '—Storages battery, 11.76 pence per car mile; overhead, 16d.; Tilling Stevens, L4.19d. Assuin-iu-K that 160,000 car miles were run per 'annum, the year's profit or loss would be: Storage battery gain, £1403.' Overhead Joss, £1103. Tilling Stevens' loss, £204. Bight miles of.track are proposed and a fifteen-minutes' service. Tho Terrace End school boys liavo .been granted the use of the adjoining paddock by Mr. 31. O'Reilly for a cricket ground.' . Several burglaries of money and jewellery, attributed to toys,' are reported, keys being stolen in each instance. . The Town Band will give a concert in tho open air on Sunday, and hope to collect £50 to finance the trip to the Auckland baud contests. .'So far, 600 shares have been taken up in the proposed Friendly Soeieties' Dispensary.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 4
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251DISTRICT NEWS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 4
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