PALMERSTON NORTH LOAN PROPOSAL.
GOOD ROADS AND MOTOR 'BUS PROPOSALS CARRIED. Palmerston North, Sept. 0. ! The advocates of the motor-hus scheme as against the tramway proposals for Palmerston North have been leaving no stone unturned to ciirrv their pet scheme, and ill conucet ion with the polls held to-day to nice authority to the Borough Council of Palmerston North to raise loans ol .GUIDO for motor Imses and £OO,OOO i"f lietter reads, they arranged with Pc' proprietors of the New P.yinoi;- t Imses to send down their larg s:. I vehicle. It is a do horse power While j t i nch with a elmr-n-banc body cap- H • j of about carrying thirty-five passen- ' gets, and has ,u very nice appearan c_, ' and runs smoothly. It came t torn Ne v : Plymouth to Palmerston North in four hours and a half, doing the distu'-ce from Wanganui in tut hour and flOv livn minutes It has been engaged all day in running passengers to the poll, and will return to New Plymouth- to morrow. -V good deal ol interest v".s manifested in the joint polls. The proposal to raise £70,000 !V road improvements was carried by no' voles to -77. and the scheme to rm.o canon for motor buses was carried bv fidS votes to ffl-d.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 September 1920, Page 4
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215PALMERSTON NORTH LOAN PROPOSAL. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 September 1920, Page 4
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