THE WADESTOWN TRAM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 585, 13 August 1909, Page 4

THE WADESTOWN TRAM.

" . A MOVE TOWARDS FINALITY..'V Tho 'Uiiife outstanding matterthe''roftto to hn . taken by the Wades town trams was rovived at last night's mooting of tho City CouuciV when < lie l'inunoo _ Comm rcoommended i-Tlmt- on condition that the ,trustees of the tthodes Estate frnnt tUQ ljmd r quired; for', tramway purposes to ; cam ; - till kdestown,tramway along t«««g route, the counoil adopt suck roUto, this .pro- . posal not to affect the previous arrangeinont 111 conlieotion with the "paper roads and the four and,a half, acres ot land promisod bv the' Rhodes Trustees; • .. : , "Councillor • Lake : supported the clause, and thought tlio sopnor the council got to orS ttto battel" aild the lthodes Trustees should como '"rnnnoillov Atkinson said lie hoped 'hero would not bo much further delny. ( liko to know if: the committee a* StA?:S/S ii*BS 2S&*. •« in Mlyo>. stated that the, wish ; of ■ thojinanco Committee was. that tho-maUtr shouJd bo put through ■as speedily as possible, and thoro would be' no delay on their, liai t .Tho reobmin'endati6ll vras• agreed t0... , •

At last night's meeting'of the City Counoil it wair decided to grant four applications for drainago, on deferred payment, as tho applicants Tiayo 110, funds to meet .the call. The tender of Messrs. Wallace and Co. was accepted at last nightV meeting of th« City Councdl for the supply of sleepers for tho Lvoll Bay tramway. Tho same .firm scourc'd the tonder for tho supply of. ironbark poles for tho Lyollß.iv undertaking. Messrs. Hutchison and Campbell's Wilder was acceptcd' for hanging rails, etc.; for the abattoirs. '■

An interpretation in regard to tlio Workers' Compensation Act is sought to bo; obtained in tho easo of Walter Denton Rough, joiner, v. Prouso Lumbor.- Liniited," which will ooine before their-. Honours Jußticcs Cooper, Chapman, and Sim, this morning at 10 a.m. His Honour Mr. Justioc Cooper will deliver judgment 1 in tho oaso of Coulston v. Taylor,, at 10.30, and will presido at a, sitting in Chambers at, 11 o'clock. . •1m Banco .case of Chcnnells and another v. Smith, will bo heard "by his Honour Mr, Justice Sim at 11. In tho afternoon, the Courl will hear tho case of Gray v. tho Government lusuratico Department, in winch t judgment of "tlio lato Mr. Justice lennofather may. bo reviewed. ;

Tho Hon. J. A. Millar , stated U a Cbrist<shui*ch 11 Press n thai tho : Harbour Bills to bo, mtroduocc noxfc session would, bo a oousolidatin( moiisiuxj, includiug sovbral ninondmonts .ro oommciludd by.; tlio Hatbour Boards ; Confw onoc,. and others Buggo6t-cd by. tb<s-Depart ' nwmt, and.disclosed as nccessary in tho work ing of the oxivSting law/ As to tho colißtitli tion of Harbout Boards, that would, bo dean ivit-li' in a soparato Bill, tho lihes.of th< Bill introducwl in tho seesidh' of last 'year, providing for tho members 6r boamti bomg oloctivo.,. Tiie difficulty to,be faced Was the riooessit} T of inaking tho boards less cumboiv somo.