THE MARANUI TRAMWAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 524, 3 June 1909, Page 5

THE MARANUI TRAMWAY.

- GOVERNMENT and trustees come . TO TERMS. - : I- there has been 'a dead. S'VP 11 to tlio' preliminaries eonnS I '™v •' f e •W g , of , th< ? tramway to Maranui— ' • t sfl? ,on --thp -city. servioo ".branchingrMiramnr line at South KiltirnierTho /..vmauer,, ;.was asomewhat'; complicated-: one; : ..bomo ; two years ago tho latoiMr. Hi D. Craw--air agreement- to" present'& tllo . city-- twelve acres of-sand dunes for the '■ purposes of ; a., park (in' the future) . and to " '"f; n»d from SoutlrKilbirnio to tho ; _>ach at i Lyel l : s:p a y,,] n -Kturn.foi' whichthe ~ city- wbb. to construct a .branch lino of tramway via tins road to Lycll's Bay. Unfortunately tho line of thisroad, which : ..is, now practically completed, travcrsod a . strip of land across the isthmus, which some time, previously,; the .late Mr. Crawford had ■ promisod to tna.GovornmontJor the oondiict , ot. its cable and telegraph linear Tho strip so promisod was two chains wide, and tho road is only ono. chain in width.; Tho•Government' , did not .wish to bo arbitrary, and relinquished tha f portion., of tho land occuP'f? by tho road, but 'would not -allow tho 5 , bo dedicated until some arrangetho remaining,obam strip, which now has 1 a frontage tho wholo way across tho "Sands" to the now thoroughfare-Onepu■ Road:;.-The trusts in tho-estate.of the lato Mr.' H.'D. Crawford wero " ot m any particular-hurry to eomofo' a_ settlement, but. owners on tho other side ' 0 * waated their titles, and could ■ not get thorn owing, to the road. hot having i • is'ho'.y announced that i' , hftVo C01 ? 0 , to tcrir,< Wl ' th tho ! fM,j a n r 6nt „^ e P roson^( J ; > ''.y the : : Crown J' al >Q?. Commissioner, -Mr: Jiackenzie).. and : '2i? • ; % strip which iw V e ™ a<1 I ' t has. agreed to tftkfl r,osj;.session of at the-back of ':'to^he^tyy 1 °S Er ? Ulid . .Crawford's: gift' A settlement having been arrived at, Onepu Road;, will be _ dedicated ..forthwith,- and an f - m ? do i WI fc,v 11,0 con'stnictramway track,.the material for ..which has beonhere for some' time.' A trench; has been left m tho road-metal for tho track ■ and: it is .not. anticipatod .that -tho. work wili . occupy more than three weeks or a month' v : tITT ' S ' nn:le - J'- vcll ,' s Bay .possesses -. one of the finest ocean' beaches in New Zealand,, and is destined to beenmo a favourite .. SMsido- resort. Under tho schomo Maranui will also enjoy tho -ble&inss of an - up-to-date tram sernco. : -