MR. TURNER'S TRAMWAY PROPOSAL.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 29 June 1875, Page 3

MR. TURNER'S TRAMWAY PROPOSAL.

The proper il to be submitted by Mr W. E. Turner to the City Council to-morrow for the construction of street tramways is as follows:—"I propose to lay down, construct, and maintain tramways through the city of Auckland, and through the suburbs of Newton, Ponsonby, Karangahape, Parnell, and Newmarket and Grafton Koad, and to run cars thereon for the carriage of passengers only.. In Auckland I propose to lay down a double line throughout the whole 6ft Queen-street and to the railway depot, having branch lines running. from Queen-street up throuph Wellesley or one of the,streets ru. uui h parallel -with Wel-

Zj™'-™ y«ar» *° maintain ana rIID jawagemeiit of said line or lines I respect Jilly refer your honorable body to the Act, 1872,. and suggest that in addition thereto I am willinfto have the same or similar restrictions and orSnce* as those now m force and use in San Francisco 1? refei:! BCe t0 street railways applied hereto." Mr. Turner undertakes tSter into conditions for completing the lines in a specified time, to use the best style of cars and rails, to keep the crossings in repair, to carry out the undertaking with local capital it possible, only resorting to a foreign comiPmposs?bme ty Y6Dt °fa loCal C°mpaDy fenß aQ