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a condition before he bought any was allowed to commence operations and: Rear 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 afterwards carried on with him.
It was clear that the concrete underneath the rails was to vary in places according to the nature of the ground. I sent a letter on the 28th March, 1903, in writing defining the points between which such variations would be permitted and work was commenced and carried on for some time in accordance with the approved cross-sections, as modified by the statement referred to.
On the 8th June last, however, Mr. Hackwood 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 Queen's 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 them.