CENTENARY WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 9

CENTENARY WEEK

EVENTS IN MELBOURNE

THE TRAMWAYS THREAT

MELBOURNE, October 15. The public is viewing the prospect of a tramway strike with equanimity, as the railways are not affected. Furniture vans, charabancs, and all types of vehicles will be pressed into service on Tuesday afternoon if the 3500 tramwaymen at the stop-work meeting in the morning decide to strike. The union will 'advise no surrender. The authorities are awaiting developments. There will be no emergency services on Tuesday unless a strike is declared. Only 300 buses are available to carry tho traffic of 1200 trams. It is understood that tho Government desires to refrain from using provocative measures pending the decision of tho tramwaymen 's stop-work meeting. Should the men decide to strike, however, the Government will immediately bring into operation carefully organised transport arrangements. .A dispute has arisen between the City Council and the Police Commissioner over the latter's order restricting evening traffic in city streets white the Duke is here. The order says that only in single file will cars bp allowed in the city area to witness the illuminations, and they must pass through without stopping unless attending theatres. Tho Commissioner is emphatic that the order will be enforced. A complaint by Archbishop Manhix that Catholics were excluded from the united thanksgiving service on Sunday was replied to by the organiser, who said that Archbishop Mannix was invited to co-operate, but expressed unwillingness to take part. Yesterday, Captain Cook's cottage, from Great Ayton, Yorkshire, came into the keeping of the Victorian people. Built 178. years ago, it was transported stone by stone to Melbourne and reconstructed at Fitzroy Gardens. It was presented as a Centenary gift by Mr. Russell Grimwado. a member of a Victorian pioneer family. The cottage was reassembled in an old English garden similar to its former setting.