HUTT TRAMWAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

HUTT TRAMWAY.

". i Sir;—lf. 'ypii : could; spaFe riie'' foom•' in"• your /valuablo'Cblun'iris, I would like to express my, ;view.;;of;the Hutt; trairiway.question; ■ ':'No', 'doubt'{witli possiblo'-motives./an .at-. /femptYis;,being, mad6~to convert in'--an', : 'un-' : .natoally/.short,'spaco;of-/'timo' some-four, or' ■five .thousand;acres":6f;,gbod,{rural<larid, -situ- : : atedfJrpiri'Yse'veri: to {thirteen ir miles. f roni' Weliliiigtpri)v,into{flr.ban/jland.;;YThe.;task,Yto '. mi ridH,i?;,fo%pbl6ss ; 'Qrie,/ arid if persisted, in : f'Mv-JWf?S" 'a,ffe'oted.' ;Iri{ the. HuttAb'orbugh/.the're' are^^-over;:3000 acres;',(a'.large".pa'rt"6f J which'is.in blocks.of, ,40:' or ,60}acres).{/Before theso are available greatexpense to' ,the/;owners, ; -haye :to„.he'.roaded. and :subd>rided../;;'These;Subdivisions'.would .make the ,number;{of,,building. Sections '/.in-the Hutt ;gniountte vfyt* l^asii2,|)oo; .Allowing.an'aver--{?S 0 section,:no less a : population'.; than;. 72,000 Y would;. beY required.: ,Cbiildvifibe'ihdijedjYeven'-by'-the '-'BiostY sari-: ;CTine,-sthat,/we;cp,uld;{possioly get more 'than :12,pP0,-in{.M;.;ye"ars>,tim'e? : '.Yßut oven' if ,we" didiget this speaking, three ;«fepnr.ip.res'ent/'pppulatipn),- therb would ;?Mi' ?°. lpMO'iections./.riribccupied;;-arid pay-; : ffiSi\^y{ ra tes/arid/land{faxes', for it must .be,:jemembere'd:.tHat,-all fatesiiare;.based oil {J«i^Br,Qy#Salyes;Yarid:the'-;'prices'asked ; by Tp r '°^, as ™{P. r, P, a , „land' under :thls':', socaJle.d;p.rosres?ive{;progfamme;".l would point ,'9'ut{*l!at..,wheri;,the{ ( supply,o|. , 'an article-is six 4iffies;..thedemarid,'.'tho price falls, to 1 a'/minimvun';;and:. it{is{ not/likely {that the/present wflers'bf:sections: will get asYmuoh-'asYthoy' /arecnowYasking : for; them'if/'mbrp''land' is: tlirown;,operi for"close;.'settlenient. But is it; I: ask',: to/ interest .of. the Hutt that ■ tho-cost ■of rland should ,bo" increased ? No'th--ing^hasYretarded-its-pfogress-during the-last .:few:-years/nipre v,thariYthe{fact-that-land'al-■readj'/is'top; dear, and could; hopod that', a/further increased would suddenly, mako peo,ple':flbcT£.{:tpl the .vallpy?,, The .more I think' ; off the; matter the more Yobjeotionable seems' ;a;:schemo: which will load/those- of ■ us I 'who' ;wishfi ; tbs.cbutinue : the"Hut't.with ' aiHmm'ehse^responsibility,.aiid :orie{/which I- : feelJisf-'gie'ater-'thafi-the / place can- . ■v-.^.1:; .- - '■ DE '^"CLERE;-';