TRAMWAY EXTENSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14208, 3 November 1909, Page 8

TRAMWAY EXTENSION.

U THE MORNINGSIDE LINE. 1 : '* I The Auckland Tramways Company, hafl prepared revised • plans for the proposed -extension of the tramway along New North '• ; Road to Morningside. These show that the track , will be 62 chains long, terminat- . ing at. Morningside. railway crossing. V A double line will be put in from the present «,|l| terminus at Kingsland to JKangsland Ave- » t } nue," and from Argyle-street to the terminus ; 'y —a total distance of 39. chains.. The remainder of the track will carry a single line, and there ; wilL bp no loops in r this - distance. The track will be laid on sleepers, and will be of the same construc- " - tion as that to-be laid from Grey Lynn to : : Riohmoqd. . The fare for the extension will be Id. ' : a : • • : ■* Iff The; plans were laid before the. Mount >>v Albert Road Board last evening by Messrs. J. J". Walklate } and :E. O. v Foster, - general manager -and engineer respectively '--'of '/ttidllli Auckland Tramways Company. ' J , These gentlemen were asked by several' !,r| members of the Board if a double line could * if; not be laid all the ; distance. Mr. Walk- ; late replied that if . the company 1 contem- % plated / further expenditure on the" line it m would first of all double the line to the present Kingsland terminus. . - \ X' question .was also put whether' th«> Tramways Company, j would consent to & clause being inserted in the deed Bof dele- ' gation that when the line was extended 30 •/" chains; to the pump at ; Mount Albert, the * fare from Kingsland to there should be Id. /a; Mr. Walklate said that if the localaauth- r " rity made such* a request it would have to-, be referred to the board in London, and h< 1 • ' did not think it would be successful. 'J 3% .. ' ■