SUNDAY TRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1915, Page 4

SUNDAY TRAMS.

| .QUESTION FOR NEW PLYMOUTH., . POSITION AT AUCKLAND. The question of running trams o» Sunday will come before the Tramway* Committee of the Borough Council at its meeting to-night. A suggested timetable will be submitted by the tramways engineer, and a deputation representing some of the New Plymouth churches will place before the committee its views concerning Sunday trams. At a meeting of the Auckland City Council las't week a letter was received from the manager of the Auckland Tramway Company stating that his company proposed to alter the Sunday-tram-way service whereby it will be continuous in the evenings and will not, bo suspended, as it is at present, between 7 and 8.30 p.m. The manager said that he wua aware of only one other city—namely, Sydney—where a similar arrangement existed, and recently the tramway authorities 'there decided to discontinue breaking the service during the church hours on Sunday evenings. The new arrangement there, which had been in operation for over a year, had proved to be a public convenience. He therefore asked that the Council agree to the arrangement proposed and absolve the company from the undertaking not to run during church hours in the evening, given in .September, 1!)03. ' The City of Auckland has progressed since tha time this arrangement was entered into," continued the letter, "and it is becoming more and more obvious that an intermittent service of ear- is inconvenient and wholly un-uited to the requirements of an important and growing city." The letter was referred, without comment, to the Public Services Cnmuiittc® for consideration and report.