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Vehicular Traffic.DUNEDIN CITY AND SUBURBAN TRAM-WAYS COMPANY. LIMITED THE MORNINGTON CABLE TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD. JEFFS, JAMES, Livery Stable-Keeper
DUNEDIN CITY AND SUBURBAN TRAM-WAYS COMPANY. LIMITED. Directors: Messrs. George Fenwick (chairman), T. Brydone, H. Law, J. Hazlett, and E. B. Cargill; Mr. D. R. Eunson, general manager. Head office: Stafford Street, Dunedin; stables: Cumberland Street, Kelvin Grove, Ocean Beach, and Caversham. The Dunedin city tramways were originally established in 1881 by Mr. George Proudfoot, who disposed of his interest in 1883 to the present company. The service is an important one, extending from the centre of the city to North East Valley on one side, and to St. Clair, Ocean Beach, and Caversham, via South Dunedin, on the other side. The service is worked by horses, the main stables being in Cumberland Street. Over 100 hands are employed by the company, and the public are well served by a convenient time-table, extra cars being put on for workmen, factory girls, and apprentices, at reduced rates. For the year 1897, the cars ran 424,647 miles, and 3,005,805 passengers were carried, being an increase of 8,807 miles and 1,015,184 passengers over the previous year; and the increase is still being maintained. The necessity for the adoption of some mechanical motive power is so clearly recognised, that the superseding of horses by gas or electric motors is only a matter of time. THE MORNINGTON CABLE TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD. Directors: Messrs. John Mitchell (chairman), T. Brown, J. Hazlett, J. Scoular, and G. Esther; Mr. D. R. Eunson, general manager. This company which was established in 1872, has a cable line of tramway connecting Dunedin with the suburb of Mornington, and its extension to Maryhill is admitted to be the steepest grade in the Colony. The line has been a very great convenience to the residents of the district it serves, and during the year ending the 30th June, 1897, the main line cars have run 40,774 miles, carrying 495,000 passengers, while the extension line cars have run 8,192 miles, carrying 49,072 passengers. The capital of the company is £30,000 in a like number of shares of twenty shillings each, of which 21,000 shares are allotted, twelve shillings per share being paid up. Since Mr. Eunson’s appointment as general manager the company has been established on a payable basis, and pays now regularly, seven per cent, per annum.
Mr. DAVID RONALDSON EUNSON, General Manager of the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Company, has also filled a like capacity for the Mornington Cable Tramway Company for many years. He was born in Edinburgh in 1860, and entered the establishment of Messrs. James Bertram and Sons, engineers, as an apprentice to the mechanical branches of the trade. Coming to New Zealand for his health, he was employed for a term as accountant by an engineering firm in Dunedin. Associated with the formation of the New Zealand Manufacturers Association in 1883, he became honorary secretary to that society, was local secretary to the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition in 1885, and for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of the following year. In 1887, he went as a delegate to the conference on intercolonial free trade held in Adelaide during the Exhibition, and was appointed manager of the Mornington Cable Tramway Company in the same year. It is well known that the Mornington company has under Mr. Eunson’s management, become a dividend paying concern. Mr. Eunson takes more than a passing interest in educational work, is a member of the committee of the technical classes association. and finds recreation in giving object lessons to children and others illustrated by working models or optical views. Mr. Eunson is married to a daughter of Mr. Archd. Barr, J.P, and has one daughter.
JEFFS, JAMES, Livery Stable-Keeper, Rink Livery and Letting Stables, and Criterion Stables, Moray Place, Dunedin; Telephones: Rink Stables 758; Criterion Stables 124; Bankers: Bank of New Zealand. The Rink stables, which are considered to be the largest in Otago, contain twenty-one stalls and ten loose boxes. The vehicles on the premises consist of three Bradley carts, eight single buggies, five double buggies, three waggonettes, two drags, and three landaus, besides dog-carts, gigs, and brakes. Though forty-five horses are kept, they are found to be none too many for the large demand. At the Criterion stables, Mr. Jeffs keeps about ten horses and six or seven traps. He has a blacksmith’s shop at both places, as well for his own use as for the convenience of customers. He started in the livery stable business in Palmerston South, where he was also a coach proprietor, running lines of coaches to Naseby and to Nenthorn, the centre of the reefing goldfields, and thirty-five miles distant from Palmerston. He retained this business till October, 1897, when, finding that the two large concerns in town required his whole attention, he sold out. Mr. Jeffs purchased the Criterion stables in December, 1894, and the Rink stables two years later from Messrs. Parker and Finlay. Since he assumed control, the business and plant were doubled within twelve mouths. Mr. Jeffs employs an expert for the breaking in of horses for his business, and also undertakes this class of work for customers. About ten hands are employed in all in connection with both stables. |
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