TRAM EXTENSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1920, Page 4

TRAM EXTENSION.

DfSCUSStON AT BOROUGH COttNCtt..

At a late atage in the proceedings' at the Borough Council meeting last niglit, Cr. Griffiths asked if the estimate* for .the Vogeltown extension would be ready in time to be included in the schedule to the loan proposal for the extension to Weslown.

The Mayor replied that if thoy took as. long as the Wcstown figurt-a to get out they would not be. Ho thought, however, that they.eould beavailable in the time suggested... A little dialogue then ensued between the. Mayor and tho ; Vogeltown councillors, prompted by the Mayor's retharks that ,the bus figures did not show that a .trim service wag likely to he a «iccess in the Vogeltown diitrWt for, loftie time,-to come. Crs. Griffiths and Short submitted that VQgeJtowii had never had a bus service calculated to give the %»t'regults, and loaUvhlle the "eye*" of the ae*vl« Were ipioked. out for Westowtt'lhe retarai itoia, the two district did'not'We a fair comp'arisonof tho'irsfflc.'' ■'*' '. . <?r,.QMffit>'Shallengecriithe Majror t<* have the time-tables transposed and then 1 compare the'revenue ftom-fflw' 'two Mbi '•'■■' !"*»/;.',:.':''>;, -.v ••..■■ ~ ;Mr. ftarke rtpMd'tJlt the timetable «i* VMSM-Mt Jhejfliheii.of the Vb&eltoTv'n tepresefrtatlves; and still tW frW satiifoctory. The' fafctj was the population #•« fcot '7**,** Vogeltown in sufficient nWpfotts 'to sustain a profitable aervlce.