Correspondence.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 177, 7 June 1864, Page 4

Correspondence.

A TRAMWAY FOR QUEEN-STREET. To the Editor of the New Zealand llkh.u.d. Shi, —As your journal, though of only recent establishment, lias already taken the leading position here, and has, by the independent manner in which it lias borne itself as the champion of popular rights, colonial as well as local ones, well deserved tho support and confidence which all classes of tho community have afforded it, T think your columns are the most suitable in which to broach a subject which has been uppermost in my thoughts for some time past. It has been a standing complaint that so large a portion of the city rates have necessarily to be expended in Queen-street. So long as the street is metalled and repaired as heretofore this complaint wilt increase, for the best means r ,f fnirning and metalling at hand will give away in winter time to the large and increasing traffic of the city, which all converges to this one channel. My idea is that a permanent tramway should be laid from tho (aid of the Queen-street wharf to the foot of Wakofiehlstreet, which could be done lor—tar less cost than the constant, tinkering of Queen-street, and would relieve that street of all its heavy traffic. Ordinary calls could be adapted to the rails by being supplied with a moveable flange to their wheels. This is what they do in Liverpool, and why not in Auckland. It is not mv intention to go into the details of any such plan. There are, of course, many difficulties, divergent interests, and obstructions to be overcome. I am not sufficiently up to your Auckland win els within winds to understand tho causes of opposition to the scheme T propose, hut I have seen these tramways working satisfactorily in Liverpool, when 1 hit there IS months since. I hear there is something of the kind in Sydney, and I do not see why Auckland should not possess the same advantages as other towns anil cities, when the means of obtaining them are practically within her reach, and when the necessity for them is so great. I leave the matter in your hands, Sir, and in those of the public. I am, Sir, J. ('. Hobson-street, June Ith, IS(M.