DISPUTE OVER TRAM STOP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 18

DISPUTE OVER TRAM STOP

NEWMARKET COMPLAINT I REPLY BY MR. J. A. C. ALLUM A denial that officials and members of the Transport Board had misconstrued representations by the Newmarket Borough Council respecting the Mountain Road tram stop has been made by Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Transport Board, in a letter to the Mayor of Newmarket. Members of the Borough Council declare that they had waited on the board with the request that the stop should be moved from the east to the west of Mountain Road, and that the board had later informed residents of the locality who had made similar representations that the borough council did not desire the change to be made.

“The manager’s report to the board stated that the deputation agreed that the eastern side of the intersection was preferable for a tramway stopping place from a traffic standpoint, and this appears to be the statement to which exception is taken,” Mr. Allum says.

“The board’s officials who were present when the deputation attended are under the definite impression that while you and your councillors did urge that the tramway stop in question should be reinstated at its old location, yet you agreed that from a traffic standpoint the present position is the more desirable. This is the position as I understand it myself. “It is clearly understood that neither you nor any of your councillors agreed that the present position of the stop is suitable from a point of view of motorists; in fact, your expressions of opinion were quite to the contrary. “I regret that some member of your council has referred to the statement as a wilful misrepresentation, and I am sure that on reflection this attitude will not be persisted in.”