No. 1.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 2nd December, 1909.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works (PATRICK NICHOLAS HILL JONES), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
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Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT.
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Mr. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON,
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Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE.
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Re-laying of ice House Street with wood paving. (C.S.O. 1523/1905.)
The Members having discussed the relative merits and prices of other road materials and the somewhat heavy expense entailed by wood paving finally unanimously agreed that this street should be paved with this material as an experiment in such paving, adding that it would be possible when re-constructing to then improve this street by abolition of the gutters and in other ways.
Extension of Peak Tramway to Queen's Road. (C.S.O. 6272/1906.)
The Chairman then stated that he had been asked to "obtain the opinion of the Public Works Committee on the point whether the extension of the Peak Tramway to Queen's Road on trestles along Garden Road is a desirable improvement in the public interest". The Members were unanimously in favour of the extension but, after some considerable discus- sion, they decided that the question of trestles was a difficult matter to come to an opinion about with no plan before them. They stated that the least objectionable form of trestles, if there were no better means of carrying the tram line, should be adopted, but that as regards the form the line should take from the nullah to the Queen's Road, further details should be supplied before the Public Works Committee be asked to express an opinion as to the desirability, or feasibility, of one system or another.
They did not however think that the vicinity to the Cathedral should prevent the exten- sion of this line by trestles or any other form of supports that might be decided upon.
P. N. H. JONES, Chairman.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 9th day of December, 1909.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.