BUSINESS SUFFERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 936, 1 April 1930, Page 1

BUSINESS SUFFERS

NEV/MARKET TRAM STOPS CRITICISED TRIAL POINT WANTED To assist the businessmen orf Newmarket to regain trade aed to provide a more convenient alighting place for the public, the provision of an additional tram stop in tine centre of Broadway was requested from the Transport Board this morning. Mr. G. G. Marriott, who led a depu. tation of businessmen, told of tho damaging effect to business In Newmarket o£ the existing stops, which were co-nsidered to be wholly unsuitable for the needs of the commercial ceu.tre. The board deferred the petition, signed by more than 150 people, and the representations, for; discussion in committee. | “Wes are not asking the Transport Board to go to expense in this ques- ! tion, even in providing a safety zone,” I said Mr. Marriott. “All we ask the j board to do is to give a central stop : a trial for six months. This point ! would be on the western side and we | are satisfied the board itself would : benefit from more revenue gained at thus stop, and would ultimately favour j a 'definite change. ! ‘“The Newmarket businessmen are (suffering more, perhaps, than any other district. The existing shops are not suitable to the public for safe shopping. We think that betterplaced stops would assist us greatly in regaining some of the trade we Slave lost.” Mr. Marriott described the stop at The Triangle as dangerous and said ; there was no shelter at this stop or at the Epsom stop. The council at Newmarket, he said, was not, as a whole, in sympathy with the shopkeepers. “Turn them out,” remarked the | deputy-chairman, Mr. G. Baildon. j In the event of a change, traffic I could be taken reasonably well j through Station Road, Mr. Marriott \ continued. | Mr. Baildon remarked that every i extra stop in the tram system meant I higher car costs, but the board was prepared to go into tbe question.