’BUS AND TRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1922, Page 5

’BUS AND TRAMS.

QUESTION OF EXTENSION. A FURTHER POSTPONEMENT. Notices of motion standing in the name of the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) and dealing with the provision of another ’bus, or the extension of the trams to Westown (as already published) came before the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. The first motion was: That from March 31 the electric ’bus service be treated in all respects as a branch of the tramway department. In moving this the Mayor said lie understood that the ’bus was originally provided out of the general account, therefore, it was understandable why its working had been kept under a separate account. In his opinion, however, the question of transportation of the public should be put in one department, whether trams or This. He confessed that the whole object in moving the proposal was that if the acquisition of a further ’bus was decided on he hoped to see the money found in the tramways department. It was, too, a just charge on the tramways department, bemuse it was building up the service for future trams. One of the effects of the ’bus being carried on entirely as a separate department, was, in the opinion of many, that the ’bus was being unfairly charged a proportion of the expenses of the electric light department in that the figures arrived at were merely arbitrary. M. Wilson intimated that by the proposal he did not intend that a separate account of the working of the ’bus should not be kept. Tn seconding the motion, Cr. Griffiths said he had been always of the opinion that the ’bus and the tramways should be in the one department. Cr. J. -'Kibby raised the question of •whether the proposal would mean that the tramways would be charged with taking over the ’bus loan. It was agreed to defer consideration till next Monday in order to enable this question to be gone into. I’fie Mayor remarked that it was not really , a liability. HoWever, in view of this postponement he withdrew the other notices in order that all the issues might be considered together.