WAIRARAPA RAILWAY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 21 November 1867, Page 5

WAIRARAPA RAILWAY.

(tO THE EDITOR OF THB INDEPENDENT.)

Sib, — The organisation of ar,y public movement for the purpose of obtaining easy access to that good land in tho interior, from which the port of Wellington is at present comparatively isolated, is so significant of a more progressive future, that all desiring tho prosperity of tho province would willingly forward any movement for this object, which is originated on a sound basis. As, however, to proceed on any unsound basis would retard the desired end, and render gentlemen, who, as provisional directors, may become responsible fer expenses leading to no beneficial result, unwilling to lend tho same helping hand to any future undertaking ; it appears desirable that the following questions should be asked of any of your correspondents promoting the project now under discussion.

1. Is it intended to lay the proposed tramway or railway along tho Hutt road as it at present exists, in a similar manner to the railway for the reclaimed land now laid in Willis street ?

2. If so, as the Hutt road is about hah" the width of Willis street, and its occupation by such a tramway would appear likely to interfere with all existing traffic, what arrangements are contemplated to prevent such a work becoming an unbearable nuisance ?

3. Or is it intended to widen the road for the reception of the tramway, and if so, what protection is to bo afforded to the new earthworks against the action of the waves generally, and particularly in storms similar to that which lately destroyed considerable portions ef the sea •wall protecting that road, causing damage estimated at the time at many thousands of pounds, and which would have utterly destroyod any new ■work insufficiently protected. 4. What sum is put down in any general estimate for widening the road and constructing a sea wall between Wellington and tho Hutt ?

5. What items of estimate form the grand total On which such a remunerative return is suggested ?

These questions, so far as the occupation by rails of any existing road is proposod, suggest difficulties that will have to be provided against, ■wherever present traffic is interfered with, throughout tho entire length of the tramway ; and if they are answered in such a manner as to show that the successful termination of tho project has been carefully considered, and not its " happy go lucky" commencement only, then I, for one, shall be desirous to promote the project. — Tours, &c, ' Wellington.