ELECTRICITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 81, 13 April 1901, Page 2

ELECTRICITY.

There can be no question that year by year electricity as a motive power is ' coming more into favor, and though - many people think that the report in regard to the harnessing of .the Te Reinga falls will not be much use, for the reason that nothing practical can j result, they may be surprised to find that the utilisation of such power is not r so far oil. In London something like a hundred miles of electric tramway 1 route will be completed within the next few years, extending from Shepherd’s Bush to Hanwell, Hayes, and Uxbridge on the north, to Hounslow, and through Twickenham to Hampton Wick, near Hurst Park on the south. It may be aaid that Gisborne can hardly be placed in the same category as London, which is quite true, but the principle is the same, and what London does on a large scale may bp done elsewhere on a much smaller scale, and the new Borough Council should have impressed on it the fact that no opportunity of gaining information on the subject of elec- ' should bo lost, In London - ''-'’uulated lines stretchthe newer com. -bi iaclude mg boyond the Thames w Surbiton and Thames Ditton on the west, and reach from Hook on the ] south to Kingston-on-Thames on the 1 north, extending fingers to Now Mai- * den and Richmond Park. On the othor side of the river the proposed 1 lines will run from Kensington to Putney Bridge, thence across the river 1 to Richmond and Kew on the south j and west, and will stretch northwards a to Harlesden and in an easterly and c north-easterly direction through Pad- 1 dington to the Zoological Gardens and t Regent’s Park. By means of inter- l: communicating lines the whole system a will be joined into a network, giving a | service to the neighbourhoods such as 1 has never before been attempted 0 either for comfort, for speed, or for c cheapness. d