THE MISSING CHARLOTTE STREET TRAMWAY LOAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 10

THE MISSING CHARLOTTE STREET TRAMWAY LOAN.

Sir,—About four years ago the Wellington City Council and its officers proposed to extend the ■■■Karon - tratn-lino in Molbsworth ■ Street ' along. Charlotte" Street ' to: Lambton guay, • opposite ( ;_the ''.Policbi; '.Station-' :,and pUrthpttso'.' / ThiS '.pftnbsal ;'was,:,placed :be- ! . .quired by 'the law',, and earned by tho ".votes of tho" majority' of -fcbo' electors.'-. A' .qiian-. tity of tramway material .was also brought on the ground and slacked between the Gov-' emmeait'' Printing • Offices and th-e Govenimient; Buildings ; but t'bo extension has novcr been -completed, and .now., tho "tramway material has t'be-en' caHed a^ay v fe ,''some ;^ .other/ imd 3iv^ed.; ; .' : ',.' 1 .',; ' ; months, '■' a 'proposal by. iho City/' CQiiii'cil. to' estend^.thb /%Sm'way from •KUbirni^'°to'vli^U-° A !B^'%a^{ilap«ii ! ' ! .'be{o(« iHe _ ratepayers,' r, arid r '■ a ,,v p0,1l * taken-'i in:- -the, usual wa.v, but-this rejected by a' majority .of\.tho-.'-.electors.',-Notwith-standing 1 the refusal, of the electors to sanction this, extension and air other' obstacles in ' tlio way, powerful influences are- atv.work in tho City i Council : in' its favour, and I see\ by''-advertisement', in yoiir.''paper that ; :the City / Council are -'about to • apply for : aii Oiaer-in-Council v to proceed; with-'this '• work.. I : boneitly-beliov^'that the loaii -money and, material^' v6ted -.'for "tho ;; Chairlbtto' Street; ex-■.tension-'by -the -tatepayere: is 'being, l under, one pretext: or anothor-j ;diy«rtcd ito tho cori-domned-Kilbirriie' ektensionfr-and' I 1 sincerely hope, /that: the'. Gov'erninerit ■ will.' not - be a ••party/to .this unholy'-proceeding,: but ~)vill refuse: to. ; sanotion 'any further extensions by- -the : city until ,tho: ■ Qiarlotto . Street bx tension- ..has been -. eorupleted. It is a'll "bluff". to ; say: that they are:waiting?for tho Government to widen- the road,. a« it is' wider-;than,-'Cuba - Street -or the, gproposed extension 'from .the. corner-of. Willis Sreet to tho General Post OlEce,—l am, oto.J THORNDON. July 17. 1909. ' /