CAB AND EXPRESS STAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 188, 11 August 1903, Page 2

CAB AND EXPRESS STAND.

The Conioiitts > of the Borough Oouncil ippointeJ to consider tha question of the bsst sites for cab and express stands report*d as follows:

That the cab stands be as under: No. 1 st>n3, three cabs, D;VOn-3tieet,l alongside Bauk of New Zwihnd ; Ne.! 2 stand in ie:itre of reet, : with leading cab alongside Messrs B*w!ey and Griffiths' in Devon-street; No. 3 star.d, two cabs, near Government Buildings, bassvean the wittr tioujh and Si'var-street. Tnat the express stands he as und;r: No. 1 stand in Ourrie-straet, between | she Mill and D;von-Btreet, on the fmptrUl HoN side of the street, with piio'i express in Davon?street, alongside Bank of South Wales; No. 2 stand, two expresses, in between railway line and Mr H. Ward's in centre tf sreet.

Report Ly Or. Alaxanler; That as it is the ol'j.ol of this Oi.nvnittee to clear Djvon-streot as much t s po sibli-, it w 11 ba better, in tho i'-itwescs of th * public, that no cabs or expresses shall stand in Djvon-strte l- , exc pt one pilot cab and one pilot evpress. After considerable .discussion, Or, Al- xauder's report. was adopted, tho cabii to bo in Egmont-street, and tha :Xpre':Ss in Gurrie-sbrEet, a pilot cab to stand in Devon-street, opposite Howl.y and Qiiffih's, and a pilot ex-p.-ess opposite B-tk of New South Walts.