TRANSPORT EXTENSIONS
APPEAL TO RATEPAYERS
POLL ON WEDNESDAY The Auckland Transport Board will make an appeal to ratepayers on Wednesday for endorsement of the loan proposals to raise the money necessary to increase transport services. Alternative proposals are being submitted—the first for a sum of £526,600 and the second for £280,000. If the first proposal is carried, the Transport Board will extend the tramways to Point Chevalier, and also on the Mount Eden, Dominion Road, Edendale and Richmond Road lines. There will also be a loop at the new railway station, a siding in Stanley Street and duplication of the Onehunga track. Cars, plant and workshops will also be improved. The extensions provided for in the second proposal are all included in the first. Polling booths will be established on Wednesday in the city and the Mount Eden, Mount Albert, Newmarket, Onehunga, One Tree Hill. Mount Roskill, Mount Wellington, Panmure and Ellerslie districts. The polling hours are from nine in the morning until six in the evening. On Monday evening Mr. ,T. A. C. Allum will address ratepayers at Mount Roskill on the loan proposal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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185TRANSPORT EXTENSIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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