The Telephone. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBORNE : TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 8, 13 November 1883, Page 2

The Telephone. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBORNE : TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1883.

In out last issue of Saturday, we casually mentioned the fact that a

movement was said to be on foot, having for its object the formation of a tramway company, who propose, we believe, laying down a permanent line from this Borough to the Patutahi. Of course, before a company u f this sort can tehsouably be expected to undertake an extensive project of this description sufficient inducements will have to be held out iu the shape of large and substantiaiconcessions, such as a monoply of all carrying, including road metal, passengers, produce, Ac., for a good term of years. The advantages accruingto the dis trict from an arrangement of thia desirable nature cannot, for one moment, be over-estimated, In the first place it would tend, more than any other thing we know of, to open up and develope the large resources of the extensive country which lies between this town and the fertile and productive lauds of ths Patutahi, No doubt the first, though by no means the greatest, benefit to be derived from the formation of such a company as that above-mentioned would be the practical solution of the metalling difficulty, for we should speedily be in possession of good hard, durable macadamised roads, which once properly formed, would only require a nominal outlay to keep them in repair for many years to come. The clouds of blinding dust, which cause such personal discomfort and does so much damage to everything during the dry summer months, together with quagmires of mud, which are regularly developed during the wet winter months, would be, if not altogether dispelled, at least reduced to a mini' mum. This, taken in conjunction with improvements in the shape of asphalted footpaths, which will soon follow upon the advent of a gas factory in the town, together with proper illumination in all the streets, will have the effect of wonderfully improving the place. When this is accomplished, and we are in possession of a good water supply—the only practical solution which, lies, we confidently believe, in the artesian well scheme—and a perfect drainage system, then Gisborne may be looked upon as that modern elysium, which it is undoubtedly capable of being converted into by a judicious exercise of enterprise on the part of those who have the control over her destinies.