THE KARORI TRAMWAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 134, 7 June 1906, Page 4

THE KARORI TRAMWAY.

THE DELAYED ORDER IX COUNCIL. NOT YET FORMALLY APPLIED FOR. A correspondent, who complains of the destruction of the piece of native shrubbery between the botanical Gardens and Karori-road for road-widening purposes, also enters a protest against the delsj-s which have taken place in connection with procuring the Order-in-Counoi! approving the tramway proposals. Residents of Karori, he states, had been kd to bilieve that the Order-in-Council had been applied for, nnd that the tramway would be running by Christmas. Ho had now learned that owing to delays in advertising or for some other cause the Order-in-Council had not even yet been applied for. This morning a representative of the Pest made enquiries on the subject. It seems, as stated, that ths formal implication for the Order-in-Council has not yet been made. The law provides for a certain period of adrnrtising bororc application can be made. Tt appe.us that the adve: Using commenced on 18t!i May, and as it must extend ovci- a menth, tho period vill not cxphc until nsxt month. Meanwhile a dr.ift copy cf the p:oposi'd application has been f^nt to the Public Works Department, go that when the formal application is mndc, the nsctus ,ry Order-in-Gouncil may be issued with as little delay as possible. Unfortunately, however, the draft copy was not ncccaipanied by plans of the proposed rorlc, which, to some considoiable ex'.ent, is likely to interfere with the department's pre-consideration of the application. Tho first practical step towards the construction of tho tramway Ins, however, been taken, n start having been made with tho work of widouiug the road towards the j-ouluern boiuvtory of tho Botanical Gardens. The road-ividen-ings works necessary for the running of the tramway are oi an extensive charac- . ter, and it will be some four months before they tire completed. The plans and specifications for the tramway have been prepared by tho City Engineer and forwarded to the Karori Borough Council, which has cast upon it the duty of obtaining the necessary material for tho work. This will, it is anticipated, be available by tho time the road-widening works have* been completed.