A SHORT CUT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 5

A SHORT CUT.

TO KARORI AND NORTHLAND. [BT Stlvids.] With the prospects of the early establishment between lvarori and the Kelburne tram of a fast - and frequent motor-bus service, tho proposal that has so often been thrashed out of devising a short-cut route for tho electric tramcars from the city to western Kelbunie, Northland, and Karori, has been lost sight 0f... With the motor-bus threat in tho air it is not considered likely that tho city authorities will consider any new scheme of extending tho tramway sorvieo in any direction, still the long journey directly out of the way to the end of Molesworth Street and back along Tinakori Road to the Botanical Garden gates is one of tho anomalies of tho Wellington tramway service. Tho'question is raised again because of certain alterations and improvements that aro being carried out in' Museum and Bowcn Streets in connection with the alterations to the grounds of tho temporary Houses of Parliament. Bowen Street has been widened out, and the screen turfed banks of the Parliament flouse grounds terminate in a low concrete wall, broken up at regular intervals by squaro pillars. Museum Street, as it was, is no more. Wellington Terrace now runs straight through 'to Sydney Street, making/ a broad thoroughfare--100 feet in width, in front of the Dominion Museum, the extra width having been, gained by absorbing a substantial strip from the old Government House grounds. ' Where the guardhouse, caretaker's cottage, and stables once stood, is now a broad public thoroughfare (Wellington Terrace continued), from which green turf extends in a gentle slope.

As it is intonded at one time or othor to raze the present Museum to the ground and erect on the site a combined Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery, the City Council might consider whether it would not be worth while to feed this block of publio buildings (essentially tho block that would bo visited by most of tho people spending a holiday in Wellington or touring New Zealand), and at the same time make the required short-cut to the western hill suburbs. This work could now bo done comparatively cheaply by running tho cars straight up Bowon Street, through a corner of the Sydney Street Cemetery (behind the houses at the' head of Bowen Street), across a short viaduct that would lead from the lower to the upper parts .of Glenbervio ?Road, and so on past Andorson Park into Tinakori Road. The distance from the top of Bowen Street to Tinakori Road is only a few hundred yards, though by all othor known routes "it 16 circuitous and lengthy. In acquiring tho right to . run a traok over this route there would only be two minor obstacles—the acquisition of two properties at 1 the head of Bowen Street, and tho; diversion to tho purpose of one small triangular section of the cemetery. If looked into it is suggested that this route, possessing no engineering difficulties, would be the shortest and 'cheapest cut through to Upper Tinakori Road and the suburbs on tho hills abovo. Indeed there is no reason why such a scheme—and it is submitted that it is a highly feasible one —might include a proper roadway through the properties mentioned. Such a scheme would brina Anderson Park and the Botanical Gardens within a few minutes' walk of Lambton Quay. ,The scheme fits in with the extensive alteration.? now being made, and to be made in the vicinity of the Parliamentary Buildings, and would be an enormous convenience to many thousands of citizens.

"She's always doing something original." "What is her latest Achievement in that line?" "She's 'become engaged by wireless telesranhy." "I wonder if slie will he satisfied with a ringless engagement."

Pat and Mike -were walking along tho ski? of a 1)0?. when Mike had the misfortune to full in. On seeing this, Pot turned and ran back to a house, and, knocking at the door, shouted out: "For tho love of heaven give me a spade! Mike lias fallen into the bog!" "How far in is he, Pat?" asked the occupant. "Sure, he's up to the ankles," answered Pat. "If he's only nrt to the ankles, he enn stirelv walk out." "Sure, and how could he when he's in liead first?"

Mrs. May Silver Miller, a New York lady, has obtained a divorce on "the plea that her husband was lioo domesticated, and was always asking'for lvam and eggs.

The telescope, so far from being, as is generally averred, the outcome of the famous experiment of fialileo, was known at least three hundred ypars before his time.

Mrs. Strongmind (about to start with the picnic party): "Let me see. Here are the wraps, here's the lunch basket, here's the opera, glass, and here's the bundle of umbrellas. I think we've got. everything, and yet, children, we haven't forgotten anything, have we?" Husband and Father (standing meekly at the horses' heads): "Shall I get in now, my dear?" Mrs. Strongmind: "Why, to be sure, James, I knew there was something else."

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