CITY EDITION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 8

CITY EDITION.

[ WADESTOWN TRAMWAY. i? • > if —*-* t , v - I "C" ROUTE ADOPTED. i Tho Toute for tho Wadostown tramway p was filially mottled by the Citv Council last }. evening Tho Finance and Property Comt nutteo recommended that the tramway bo i takon by the "0" route Tho Modes [ trustees, the committco stated, would not I agree to gr.ant tho land required for tramf J way purposes, in addition to tho 4J acrei of land promised by th6m in connection with tj ' tho "paper roads" arrangement ■<■ * 'Tho Mayor said that tho axei of less than | an aero wanted for tramway purposes "could [ ' -be takon from tho 4} acres duo under agrcer > ment from'tlio estate The line would mn 1 through settled country, which would all be v profit-bearing and taxable Tho committee were unanimously in favour of tlio recommendation, and he moved its adoption ' ' Councillor- Luke congratulated the council £, in having reached finality m this matter, and *, i chosen the best routo (Hear, hoar ) l !"' The recommendation > was unanimously \ i adopted ' i t t. , The "C" -route goes up Park Street, run 3 't v along Grant Road, zig-zags up and around. I Goldie's Brio, passing out a httlo i to tho north of "Tho Grango" (the residence of t ' Mrs Rhodes), after whie 1 ! tlio lino ben^s \ and reaches a point adncent to the main 5 Toad. From there tho lino will bo carried , ; along a portion of tho route originally proK posed on the mam road, until tho terminus ' is reached at the foot of tW load leading 1. to the Wadostown School The maximum [» grade is one 'in, fourteen, whereas the * maximum grade on the BrooUjn section js f one "in twelve There arcane* or two curVes I of a mnumnm radius,' but these ■ can bo f increased' by cutting back further into i the {' < "nil.