HUTT VALLEY TRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 3

HUTT VALLEY TRAMS.

:■ . MEETING OF THE BOARD: • ; ;• A; meeting ; fr 5 - way Board was held last evening. Mem- . bers of the boai'd present were : Messrs.: • ,J. W. (chairman), R.: Stevens,. ... ,"J. IV'Hawthorn, _R. Soutbgate, and'H. '» Baldwin. The secretary reported that the rates had not been coming iu„as.freely as • .- should/have been .the case, and, asked r V tlio board for instructions/ .' The total.!-;:, amount of rates to come in was £942 os. . ■ lid.; amount recovered to date, £373 os. 2d.; amount outstanding ,£SBB Bs.i- ; pel. '• The bank draft had .been reduc- ; " Mr." Stevens thought that'-the _ p'rivceduro of the Borough-Council in. rfr-.'-v; covering rates, should be adopted: "; f moved that fourteen 1 diys' grace * be: '- given in which to,pay rates; after which - the board should'sue for, arrears, . the/'-j" v fourteen days to count from the day 1 . on which thei notification was advertised. ~ ■ y ' The motion was carried. air. J. W. M.'Emu .stated tliat ftjyji . way of keeping •tlio-' board to "Vint was being"done for;tramways : for the Hutt Valley) he, had written • 'to the Federal Car Company.of .New... • York. asking tliem If .they: wern: V: pared to ' "put." down' eleven .' miles' of ":' track, with;.say. twelve cars, under the ... Edison storage battery system: : . As.the; J;, result of a conversation with the Mayor -vof Gisbornej .who-had seehi these "cars in operation, he (Mr. M'-Ewan). had - . been impressed with their possibilities, : . and he thought they prove verr. _ '' : suitablo for the Htitt. Valley. - . cars attained a speed of 30 to 3Cniile3!j.;; ! : : ; an hour. By the. next San Francisco * mail a reply, no"cloubt,""would'come:to hand. ' . Mr. Hawthorn said that trailers ; ;' be required for a Hutt Valley system. ' and some information regarding them was desirable. '"What wo want." he added." "is cars as new as possible, t-o ■ curtail expenses." '■ v ■. Mr. M'Ewan: "Well, it remains for. 1 ■■ the Government, to grant permission j, > to use trailers." . .r. - r . The discussion then dropped. / -