A BIG SCHEME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1476, 26 June 1912, Page 4

A BIG SCHEME.

■;. .'.'REORGANISING OUR ■:;'' " V: report PENDING. .■'/'^vj? 1 Big developments are. pejicling- with re-'>'';•■' ■ard to Hie Wellington City Tramway sys.- F em, ami it is understood that tlio City ..■-;. louncil irill be asked in th« very near ■:■■■-; Mure to consider a comprehensive ,J ; ichemo which is at present being outlined .. - jy tho Tramway Board. This nniek was,. ■ i-ouchsafed to a representative, ot lius- % Dominion by the chairman of the board . ■/■■. Mr W IT. Morton, City Engineer), in J ;?: •cii!v i.on,"question touching upon tho prac .. : . ■ |-i"a'l)ilitv of constructing a short-cut lino■■■■:■: ia Kuroi'i, via Howen Street, straight over;.;-/ the hill through the Arts. ClulTproporty : ;:■■ and a part of tins Sydney ■ btrcct Cemotcry, ;.?;; Mr. llorlou stated Hint the settlement 0f,.;.;: sveh nueri-ions «s Hicjo must be governei).:?.., by the rcntljiistmont of the tramway evs. ~.; tern, which must inevitably accompany-, .-K Hi" Ijiii'ilins of tho new centra! railway..'??*, station, lit further indicated (hat. it ww-j? the di'sii-e of thoso concerned with the.ad-v-' miiustration of the tramway...system-to iil'cH- "lien a readjustnient as won a not for 12 months, but for,: say, iho'nest -v 15 vo.°rs. lie was not prepared, therefore; >; (iv-entw'upon a discussion oi the merits, i;;, „.■ d-mcrils ofthisor that particular "eslion for a. short-cut to kurori or any-*. svl u ---n olse-" , •" s ' ;i '' ■'So'-fur"as"can l)o gathered, the. scheme & .which tho Tramway Board has m hand'J ■»,,penw to ho iu H» "rough-vSra t J&Wf!: : but it is l»ins pished on steadily jutli.w,;. tin-, object of prospectrvo points dimciiltv with the Government ns speciWyvv; t'. nfUible. Tho new ceniral rnihviiy sfe .-,: iiou (the site of which Is in Ounny btrcct) .lid its vicinity ss far as the Post will bo the core, 50 to speak, of ttto 0r organis«d tramway svsieni-iho tUspa.c -■ ■. inc conlrt- for curs bound north, tw.th, s . oast m 1 west-nnd it is probable hat anSnnt "lav-outs" wi» 1« KflUiwd to- ; : lactate the working of what is expected,I? bo the,busiest tromway centre m: ; tha.;:v C! 'Fiiis wacijustmont, it is •vi 1 hivolvo a rccasliug of tho basis wiic'i Hie tramway actions'and fores arc--, -Sit h 1-egarded in somi. !v« h th'"?ehemo will contain some comwi-.;; lioiis ointSviUKl tliat it will require ;v* ; ,;"•'-. in-etiK of (he City Council ■iKtoniv donl wish ih« husmi'M, - ■Iγ* chance for the politician. £>"M .01:0 miin. ' _, ■~ -:X:\-X: