DALLINGTON WANTS TRAMS RESUMED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 4

DALLINGTON WANTS TRAMS RESUMED.

BUT BOARD AWAITS SEWAGE WORKS COMPLETION.

Dallington residents are becoming impatient for the resumption of the tram service, but the Board cannot move in the matter until the Drainage authorities complete operations near the Dallington terminus, in about a fortnight’s time. That statement was made at a meeting of the Tramway Board held yesterday.

There were present Messrs W. J. Walter (chairman), G. T. Booth, A. E. Taylor, J. Wood, 11. Pearce, D. Sykes, T. A. Flesher, E. W. White, and the Hon J. Barr, M.L.C.

No decision was made In connection with a letter from the Mayor, Mr J. K. Archer, in which it was asked that the board put in hand as soon as possible work to absorb some of the unemployed this winter.

The Sumner Borough Council expressed appreciation of the board's making of a temporary roadway where the new line is being laid. “It is not often we receive letters of appreciation,” the chairman remarked.

The Works and Traffic Committee reported that re-laying work in Victoria Street was proceeding satisfactorily. The following bitumen and tar-sealing work was under way: Sumner line, St Peter’s to Heathcote Bridge. Sumner township and around Clifton, where the temporary track was put in during the bridge renewals; Papanui Road, from the end of the double track to Harewood Road. The temporary deviation around Clifton had been taken up and a good tarred road surface left where the track was laid. The work of lifting and repacking Colombo Street South, east track, was progressing satisfactoßegarding the spoil dump on Page's Road, the committee stated that some time ago the board purchased a section of about five acres and a half, having a frontage df sixteen chains and a half to Page’s Road tramline. The price paid for the whole block was only £4OO. It was land from which clay had been taken in the early days for Hew Brighton road formation, and it had become a water-logged, mosquito-breeding, unsightly hole. Tt was used as a dump for material removed when track renewal work was done and which could not be disposed .of elsewhere. In the course of time about twenty good building sections would be available, and, as the original cost was only £4OO, the ratepayers would gain considerably when the old pit was filled. Other local bodies were supplied with second-hand track material at a low cost when it was suitable for road purposes, and already a considerable quantity had been taken by the New Brighton Borough Council, wnich had been offered a further supply at 5s 6d per yard, delivered on a tramway siding. The report was adopted.