ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.
A Powerful Combination. Special to "Stab." Lunedin, This Day. In regard to the cable published yesterday in regard to the Adelaide cables, Mr Noyes, ofNojes Bros. (Sydney), now in Dunedin, explains that a group of capitalists and his firm have agreed to purchase all the private trams in Adelaide. There are Beven separate companies. The contract to buy is subject to granting of legislauve authority to convert these trams to electrical haulage. The Bill ha 9 gone through the Upper House, and now after a three months stonewall, it has passed its second reading in tho Lower House. The systom would consist of about sixty-six miles of electric tramways. Tho purchasers paid the private Coys over £400,000 for their properties, and the entire system when re-constructed would cost about a million and a quarter sterling. Noyes Bros, prepared the plans and specifications for the entire sjstem, and when the necessary legislative authority is granted, they are to carry out the contract.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 3
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163ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 3
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