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East. I have made it my business to make

Nose

ау

7

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.