QUESTION OF TRAM ROUTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 9

QUESTION OF TRAM ROUTES.

TAIHAPE, 4th July. A cas& which aroused great interest among bush • farmers and sawmillers, and which lasted three days, finished in the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. The Egmont Box Company applied for an order for the right to take a tram through property including tne homestead of David Wilkie, of Ohutu. The question at issue was whether any other practical and suitable route except through the homestead existed. Already a train passes along the road, but plaintiffs claimed that this route was not suitable. Considerable evidence on this point was taken, and also regard-

ing the damage such a tram would caise to Wilkie's property. The owner contended that it would be impossible to work the farm if an order was granted. Expert evidence of several engineers on both sides was given, Mr. Beer© showing that the road route was as good and possibly as cheap as that asked for. The magistrate refused the order in respect to the homestead section, plaintiffs, on whom the onus lay, having failed to prove that no other route was available. The question regarding the other section was held over, as was the question of costs. Mr. Myers appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Morrison for defendant.