THE PROPOSED TRAMWAYS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 8, 16 October 1871, Page 3

THE PROPOSED TRAMWAYS.

With reference to tbe tramwaysnowbeing,' and about to be constructed from Tararu to Grahamstown and Shoriland, we have teamed the following, particulars. The plans of the pfbposetUlne from Grahamstown to Shoriland have been referred back to the Engineer of the Waiotahi Highway Board. This gentleman, in., conjqnctipn with the Engineer of the Kaowaeraoga Board, is to draw up a set of plans shewing the best method of running the lines iu the tOwqshipr.yOn Wednesday next (he Waiotrijhi Board hold a meeting, and the Kau-“waerang'a-members Are to-be invited to, meet them, when the route will probably be decided on. The tramway from Tararu to Grahamstown by the beach road has received the sanction ' of’the Highway Board under certain conditions, the principal of which are as follows ' The roads are not to be in,any- way destroyed or ren?dered unsafe r6r unfitffor traffic by’carts, &c. The Board reserve to themselves the right to widen any road at any lime, or change the course of the tramway to suit the olho rfraffic on the road. No steam engine b to be ahowed to travel on the line al any time except by special permission oi; the ,Board, as they consider it dangerous On i3o narrow a road where there is a large amount of traffic always going on. There are two petitions at present being got up, one for and the other against the line. In another column will be found an article touching (he best road for the, proposed line. . ... ,