TRAMWAY EXTENSION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 192, 9 May 1924, Page 6

TRAMWAY EXTENSION

WALLACE STREET STILL WAITING

Some three or four months ago “an immediate start” was to be made with the extension of the tramway tracks along Wallado Street southward to John Street, but so far the only work done in preparation for the tramway work is the rearrangement of the water and drainage services along a section of the street that will be affected by the cut that is to be made in the rise. As this is to he some ten feet in depth at the apex of the rise, it was necessary to shift the water mains and drains out of the line of the cut. Work on the cut has not been commenced because the greater part of the excavation is to be done with the new steam shovel (which has not been properly tried out yet). It was found to be useless to put this implement into commission until ample provision could be made in the way of transport for the spoil to be moved, and this will not he available until the Hutt Road is completed. The cornoration has had to concentrate its big wagons and tractors on the Hutt Road in order to push it through this season, encl no effort has been spared to take all'the “mix” the big Cummer plant could turn out. Other works needing such transport have had to wait. The end of the Hutt Road job is now in sight and as soon as the bitumen reaches the railway lino at Petone the whole of the transport fleet is to be moved to tho Wallace Street job, when the earth is expected to fly in earnest.