TRAMS TO MELROSE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 52, 25 November 1919, Page 3

TRAMS TO MELROSE

* cm' COUNCIL PETITIONED BY WOMEN.

It is not very often that women petition the City Council. There was, therefore, an clement of novelty in the fact that_n deputation cf women wailed on the Traiinvuy-, Committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon, nn<l presented a petition favouring the extension of the tiamway system to 11.5!.r«50.. via Ik-ail. The oM ilelroso -Borough included Brooklyn, Iklsintl Bay, Lyall Bay, ami Kilbirnie, but when 11 elrow is referred to now if means flint area of country that roughly lies between Lyall Hay and Island Buy ami Xi:-rl nmpore—the - hiilv il sir'ct served by the road that. Hanks the eastern s'<b of Newtown Park and the "Zoo." The petition was prcsenieil by Mrs. Critehley. who mentioned that, it was signed by 101 names and represented 212 pemile. 'J'he petition read as follows"We, representing the women mid mothers reridins in Melrose, respectfully urge that in the sr-home of tramway extension our claim for the extension of the line from the t«rmimvi at Newtown Park to th-n top of t'nr- hill (f-nt.lierln.tHl Bondl, with a:\ i\H: : mnte extension t.hro'.igb the district. 1m favourab'.y considered; end an (imount to construct same Iw plaecvl on tlio estimates for tlio proposed loan for the ahove object. We know you are in sympathy with tin jpoplo living ami bringing up their families in open somcs, nml to encourage this wo must have means of transit. Our population 'a rapidly increueinij:, and the majority urn ratepayers in tho f»nso that diev own i lirir own house?. The work we a?l; for i-; a sm'ill one considering the area of cowl 'build : ng land it will open up, mid Hie lie-In it will be to ourselves. ■ AVe would therefore earnes'ly ask that our reonest hi acceded to."

Mrs. Hazplwor-d also spoke, poinlinß out the disabilities tlioy wore.' undor nt iU'elir.sn in having no means ot' transit, and the hard'V'o and trial it was lor mothers and children to 1» f-o isolated, when really tiuile near to town. It was pointed out that the Helro" district was r'lpable of cnrr.viii;,' a 1 -iji population, and tli-' council v.w 11 wl to encourage tlio idea, instra-'l 01 wailing until the population was llipre.