THE NEWMARKET TRAMWAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1902, Page 2

THE NEWMARKET TRAMWAYS.

(To the Editor.)

tiir,—-I crave space ior a few linea uu the above subject, as I believe ait Newmarket Borough are to settle cue matter at to-iiiyhVs meeting.

it is freely rumoured in the street .i that permission ior the centre poles is an assured thing: I think 1 voice ; ihe opinions oi the vast majority of ratepayers when 1 say that it is to;be;: : sincerely hoped that the Newmarket jjoroug-h Council will not erect such permanent and lasting monuments oi colossal ignorance, as these hideous and dangerous centre poles will be.ij 1 have not yet met a single individual \ who is in favour of the above poles.,/ being in the centre of the roads, and I the Newmarket Councillors keep | iaith with their electors, and not be influenced against their wiser ju<Jg-\ ments by the wealthy and powerful tramway syndicate, they will unhesitatingly have the poles kept to the sides. The ratepayers of Newmarket and, the public generally should have been loud in their protest against committing such a stupendous blunder such as has been perpetrated in Parnell. It also behoves Newmarket to see that the tram rails are not laid so much above the road level as was done at Parnell, fop ? during- almost the whole distance on the Domain .side of Manukau Road vehicular traffic will be a. positive dangei*. There is an erior- • mous amount of traffic in Manuliau Road on race days, and before ana" after football matches at Alexandra Park, and I feel certain that every centre pole erected anywhere about the bottom of Khyber Pass Road will ultimately be besmirched with human j blood, and Councillors voting to that end will have . the ' above enormous responsibility resting on their own :, heads. —I am, etc.,