ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 3 April 1901, Page 2

ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

MT EDEN AN© MT. EOSKILL ROADS.

In reply to an inquiry made on behalf of the Ratepayers' Association, Mr P. M. Hansen wrote enclosing correspondence with the Mount Eden Eoad Board on the subject of electric tramways. Mr R. Udy, chairman of the Eoad Board, submitted the following heads of proposed arrangement with the Mt. Eden Eoad Board, re electric trams:—(l) The Board, when called upon by the Company,, and at the Company's expense, to ap-" ply for an order-in-council to comprise both Mt. Eden and Mt Roskill Roads; (2) the Company to exercise" the above right anfl call upon the Board to apply for such order-in-council within two years from date hereof; (3) when order-in-council obtained, Board to sign deed of delegation; (4) construction of line on Mt. Roskill Road to be undertaken first (unless both begin simultaneously), and to be finished and trams running \vi thine one year from date of deed of delegation; construction of line on Mt. Eden Eoad to be completed and trams junning within two years of deed of delegation; (5) if order-in-council is obtained within a less period than two years from date hereof, then time for construction to be extended by the difference between the time when the order-in-council is obtained, and the two years specified, in clause 2.

Mr Hansen's reply was as follows:— "As the Board make it a condition that the order-in-council is to be obtained at the Company's expense, I shall have to refer your letter to Lon* don for instractions. You can, however, rest assured that your proposal will leceive the most careful consideration, anc as I shall ask my Company, for a cable reply, I expect to be in a position to refer to your letter again before the end of February."

Up to the present, however, no reply had been received from London. These lette/s were read at a meeting of the Mt. Eden Ratepayers' Association last evening. The Chairman (Mr H. R. Cooke) said the Board, practically held to its original idea, that of including the two roads in the one order-in-council, the Mount; Roskill line to be completed in three,; years, and the Mount Eden line in four years.