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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12654, 24 January 1910, Page 2

mmmmm^mmmmmmtmM ••■ _ ' ; „ '.' * — n' '•.-'. The addition- of" two: ne\Vlirieß to the Christchurch jcityv^.^rij^yiiy systom will be commenced shortly. .i'^Ebe.,*-. rails-, for the extensions' are;- Expected to arrive m , Christchurch; ih about &;, w6ek, and the work- will . be cO^im^nced; as . spdh ,a« ;supplies of sle^ep^rs-frdelivery df which has been, delayed by -tha "Newcastle strike —are received. ' One of the new lines will serve tho thickly populated portion ■of St. Albans, runniug up Colombo'st^.eet from Edgewareu-p/id,., and tbeh inlio Ci'anf ord -street" as' "far as Shirley-; •roiid. Tliis will be a twopenny section 'line. The other extension, will -be a branch of High-street..., It will rim through Linwood straight clown Casliel .street to tho Canal liesei;vo, .for.a-dis-;taiice of two septidiiJ}: . i noni Cathedral-' square. A third extension — from Moori hpuse-avenue along- Windmill-road— was .proposed, but its construction has had -to, be abandoned, for the present, owing 'to y objections having been made |o the construction of a ..line through tho portion .of Windmill-mid that has not been opened* to tho full width. lii order that the construction of the other i lines might not be delayed, tho Tramway Board amended its application for ian Order-in-CounpU authorising the extensions by delotiiig the Windmill-road proposal.