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East. I have made it my business to make
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The
a detailed personal Examination Construction and working of some of the prin Cipal hamways in this country including
North London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Chester, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester, Brimingham and Huddersfield, with a new to Requiring whatever information might prove of practical use in the Consider
the Hong Kong Scheme, and this
Akira
information
in as
I have
the honour to submit
brief a form as I am able.
3 . Ifind the subject of tramways divides itself naturally into three principal heads
" ie : (i) Construction, (ii) motive power, &
(16) Maintenance, And I should remark at
the ontact that in this country where there
are not open questions in respect of these three heads, legislation appears so
so far
tohave.
been tentative on many points, and that it
does not Extead to
many
Fallers
of detail
that would have been the better for being prescribed by law, Parliament having Evi =
- danbly preferred in the Enactment of 1870, to deal with general principles, leaving it to the Board of Trade, whom it has clothed
with powers that are admittedly not get
perfect, to lay down such pules in Each individual case, as fresh Experience may dictate to that Department from time to
This incompleteness of the low being doubiles due to the comparative novelty
time,
of the entire Subject.