a condition before the company was allowed to commence operations and
edge cross sections showed the entire surface between the two tracks to be concreted over.
This was the position when Mr. Hackwood arrived in the Colony as Resident Engineer for the Tramways Company and all further correspondence relating to matters of construction was with him.
Afterwards it was carried out. The concrete underneath the rails was to vary in places according to the nature of the ground. He sent on the 28th March, a clear statement in writing defining the points between which such variations would be permitted and work was continued for some time in accordance with the approved cross sections, as modified by the statement referred to.
On the 4th June last, however, I reported to Government that the Company had deviated from the approved cross-section by omitting the central strip of concrete between the two tracks over a considerable length of Queens Road and after the matter had been referred to the Crown Solicitor, I was instructed to call upon the company to conform to the cross section deposited by