ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 5

ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

At Thursday night's meeting of the Auckland City Council a letter was . read from Mr. P. M. Hansen, of the Tramway Company, intimating that the company's contractors (Messrs. J. G. White and Co, Limited) intended to commence the work of reconstructing the western line from Queen-street to the Ponsonby depot as soon as possible after December 1. In order that the Ponsonby service may not suffer any interruption, Mr. Hansen informs us that the work of reconstruction will be in two sections, the first extending from Queen-street, via Wel-lesley-street West, Hobson-street, Pitt-street, and Karangahape Road, to the Ponsonby Waterworks corner, and the second contract from tins lattei point to the Ponsonby depot. While Messrs. McLean and Sons, who will lay the rails for both sections, are engaged on the first section a 'bus service will be laid on from Queenstreet connecting with the present horsetrams at the reservoir corner, and when this contract is completed the horse-trams will run on th new rails to the reservoir, where they will connect with the 'bus service, which will run on the Ponsonby section. Thus the aarvice will continue wtithout interruption. The same course will be adopted on thr eastern ci cuit, from Queen-street, via Symond3-stretft and Khyber Pass, to Newmarket, when the work oi laying the lines on that route is commenced. '

The tender of Messrs. Nejwson and Coulson having been accepted for the foundation-work in connection with the power-house, to be erected in Hobsonstreet, the contractors will shortly be in a position to commence the work of erecting the power-house. Advices on this head are now being awaited from Home, and it is expected that the steel frame for the house will arrive here early in the new year, when the work will be at once pushed forward. The poles and wires for the city portion of the new service are all on thek way, and the first lot will arrive in the course of a week or two, and a start will then immediately be made with the wires, etc.