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Ordinance which I trust

Commend

may

themselves to the Approval of the Secretary

of State, and I have now

therefore only to touch on the subject of the proposal to build

a new sea wall in deep water along the

Victoria,

harbour frontage of

the City of

to which Governor Hennessey invites the

favourable Consideration of the Earl of Kimberley

in Connexion with the tram

=ways.

3. I may point out, at the outset, that

this scheme can scarcely be viewed in

Connexion with the tramways, for Even in

Queen's.

order to relieve the traffic along

Road it would be undesirable to move.

The

Tramway,

Praya

or any part of it, to the

where the pressure is not only as

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but of a kind that would be se

great but of

- tiously inconvenienced, for it is in great

part a Cross traffic between the line of boats and lighter loading and unloadin

at the Praya wall, and the line of shops and warehouses

on the opposite side of

the sheet. To interpose a tramway between

these two lines. And run tramcars across

the grain of

would be as

this particular kind of traffic

objectionable

as

as any coups

create

- tion of traffic the tramway may

along Queen's Road- where the movement

is parallel with the tram rails and not

across them to and

it is

a pro, as along the Traya quays. Even therefore if a new

Guay

be built in deep water as pro

posed it would better to leave the

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