EASTBOURNE FERRY BOATS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2127, 20 April 1914, Page 5

EASTBOURNE FERRY BOATS

FAEES AND TIMETABLE. At Friday evening , e meeting of , thft Eastbourne Borough' Council ftp Perry Boafd submitted for tho council's approval a ■ projected winter tiaio-tablo. la tho new tiate-table the same number of trips was to bo mafhtain.ed in tjio winter as in the sum.m&r, with 6oni<i slight alterations ae to tte times of departure. Several «oii«€i!lors. expressed the opinion that it* would 1)6 wrneces* sary loss to tho eouncil to run 0/ service iu of the winter needs of a borough. People-, it) was fiaid, expected to seo the present service cut down soniewhnt, and if it could be done it was highly ndvtsablo that the '-expenditure should be ciit dorft as njnch as poSsiMo in order to- tide tho boi-'ough over tlie bad' eciiiSon. ■ Councillor Button movtfd tb.at tho 9 a.m. , and 9.50 a.m. trips from tho bays and thd LIS p.m. from 1 tho city be cut oiit of tho ramtnjft. This was carried, it «fts also decided: to discontinue tho 3.5 p.m. and 3.15 p.m. trips from tho bays and tho 4.15; p.ia. from thp city. A suggestion was, iiiado by OouMd-lJor Butto,n that the I first boat froint-hobay&iftthßinortiingbei made to depart ton -iniimtes osxlier, in order that the sqrvieo define the day. until tho 6,20 trip, might bo csa-v-ried on by ono boat. The manager (Captain Ca-mbridp:e) wes asked to report on tlie fira.cticablltty of tteso ischoinos, in conformity with the prafitico of .nieeTifig the boats ftt- bay. Ho was also s-sk* ed to report to the council as fo , th» possibility of altering the Saturday tj.iDc-tablo in a sfotiite mn-nnct to what hnd already boon suggested with regard te the rest of the week.

A recommendation was submitted te the council by tho Perry Board that tho animal family tiokets fe reduced from £18 10s. to £14, tho half-yearly tickets from £12 to £8, Aiwt tlio quarterly ffofiJ £0 10s. te £8, Bio word "family" was de'liiwd as consisfcitig of parents, their children, mid ono housfiiield sorvaiit, pR-rmaiieutly living under ono roof, bnt. iiot including; sons of 21 years of itgo awl d\-or. Tho lattof were to i>av £3, £3. and £2 f«r tho annual, half-yearly, and quarterly ttekels, resjxsoltvcly. Tim council sat from 7.30 o'clock till after midnight vyfsngling over tho porf»osal, and litUo progress was made, tho matter being eventually' hold over until a special tneetinc to tso hold a fort-nigM jwiMio. CpDtpininfc was matlo that tho ■promised halaiico-eheet of Uin ferry boat finances (iltould hare twfrii snbmitted bo* fero the question pi fares frns disciißscd, to whir:h i.hc Mayor i'H>li«d tiiat Hie statenifnt- had been delayed pndine ilie rompjelmn of cor'lain Afliitratiei) Court BMceediafiiS. ■ ,