THE KARORI TRAMWAY
Sir,—lu your rccent report of the pro ceedings ;il a City Council meeting Councillor Fitzgerald is reported as having said that while it cost tho city Is. Dd. iter mile .to run its cars, the Karorl lSorougn paid only Is. Hd. per mile. Through his misunderstanding tiie matter, he conveys a ve.'y erroneous impresion to the public. The Is. 3d. per tiula cost of runuiiig tho .city trams includes the eosts o{ renewals and repairs to track and overhead gear, printing of tickets, lighting of track, capital and other charges., In addition to paying tuo City Council Is. l{d. for running its cars 011 the borough lines, the Karon Council has to pay all repairs' and renewals to its track and overhead gear, pay tho City Council for lighting tho track, print its own tickets, and meet capital, clerical, and other charges, which are included in the city's Is. 3d. per mile.—l am, etc.,
JAS. W. HENDERSON, Earori, April 19, 1018.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180423.2.53.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164THE KARORI TRAMWAY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in