NEW TRUCK WANTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 4

NEW TRUCK WANTED

MAYOR CONTENDS HORSE ! AND DRAY ARE BETTER. U \W COUNCIL FAVOURS TRUCK. j ' At Wednesday night's meeting oi- , the Rotorua Borough Council3 the pf works committee recommended that tothe two old trucks he dispensed witli w and a second-hand truck be pur-K chased. They were not economical jjjL to run, and it would pay hetter to have one good one. The Mayor (Mr. T. Jackson) asked if, in view of the ? | fact that most of the loan work was Uj completed, a new truck was neces- % sary* U Gr.'E. T. Johnson said the engineer i 3 had for some time urged that a pew ; truck be obtained in place of ihe old ones. The new truck could he /l profitahly employed on work with f 1 the unemployed. J The Mayor suggested that the j -1 committee consider the use ot j -M a horse and dray in preference j'J| to a truck. With short haulage a dray would be less costly, j/1 It did not appear to him that thejgj present trucks were used to their IM maximum capacity. gj Cr. E. H. Wackrow said the case -9 had been gone fully into with the 9 engineer. The idea was to have a j|| fast truck to do the odds and end5gj|| work without taking one of the otherLJj| trucks off the road. |ra| Cr. A. Smith emphasised that the^H old truck used was not economicaU-Jra and the new one which the commit-^B tee had in view, was good value. Cr.iJIH Johnson said the committee had had^9 a dray in view, but the handy hauh |S age was nearly all done. filS Cr. W. Galbraith referred to cuttings being made at Whaka, and S thought a -dray would be*qulte use- S ful there. j B Cr. O. H. Coleman agreed with the Jj» Mayor and thought it might in the, end prove cheaper to revert to horse vehieles for unemployed lahour. Cr. N. M. Keane thought it cost as much to get a truck as horse and dray. A truck could serv/^H 24 men where a dray would serve^9 only two or three. |k| The Mayor was quite satisfied tha: the old trucks should he scrappe|j|M| but that in the end the dray be cheaper. It could he run 9|k more economically. WsS" Cr. Smith: The engineer was phatic that he required three The Mayor reiterated that he , not convinced that three trucks necessary. Cr. Smith thought they could sibly purchase the truck from committee's own funds. The Mayor moved as an amen^^B ment that a horse and dray be PD'Kg| chased. Cr. Coleman seconded, but amendment was lost and the recoE«^^ mendation approved.