HILL STREET TRAMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

HILL STREET TRAMS

PETITION OP PROTEST LODGE&, Though, tlio i-p-s-klents of Upper Tina* kori lte,id, Botanical -Gafttoiis Head* Northlaiid, and Karori may -be mixiotye foi' tho City Council to push en witls tho ehort-cttt tramway .U-i.io ttrotigli iiffl otveetj jMwidod ior ill -lite Sluyw's ioppitt -sclictlulo cd trannvay works, tho ;i'c sidents tjf Hill Streak appeal- to bo phtircrfy OJ)]SOSG.4 to tho pyofrassd iunQVatiaii! To sliow tliis, they Im-vo lodgci a petition with tho Mayor and OfliMioi'l aßainsii tiio ivofk of constfucting the line i-it tho following terms:— "<1) 'T-irat we -are residents of Hill Strefl-ij, in the etfcy $$ %\%\lh\gl(m, "(2) That as such we (jhjocit to I'ho jifopffp.tl to lay a double li-i-is of t-i-a«i rails in Jiifl Sfereot. "(3) That Hill Street is a inti-dy wsi* dp.nfr.id Street, .aiul the noise- and dtist whicil wa'irid bo canisecl. Ivy the --proposod train wouM amount to a iwisft-noo to US. " ■' ! '-'- :, ; ' ■'■ • ■ ■'■■>■' "(4> That tho road suifefe ill Hill Stwet is tthvrtit 28ft. 4-iu at th.c T-iualiori Hoitd end, iuirrnf\vina down irt α-tmut t.s.ft nin, at tl',o Sphvy-n te-m-cft jtiftclwn, ftiul as- a dttttWo line of trams would orcu.py aiiout 15ft., veiijides having -hii-sin-MS to stop at tiip various houses wntiH he ta constant! daUßftr frem the tpms. ' "(?ij As fatcpayei-s Wo ohjoct t« the wry largo expense, ostiniated at £1.0,00(3, (or this- smsill Imvg'tli *f traiiitao."