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which the tramways

are laid.

e to the gas

7. With

reference

and water

mains, and the telegraph pipes running

under the streets, I find

on Conversation with

the municipal officers of several towns,

work of removal

I from under the

that the work of

" site of a proposed tramway, and the relaying

of the pipes, has by mutual agreement

the

water, and

gas generally devrived telegraph companies at the cost and charge the tramway promoters, in a ccordance with Section 30 of the Tramways Act of

1870. In some cases the promoties, removed

the pipes, the gas

having

Au

and water Companies.

officer present to represent

them and to secure Efficiency in the work

of relaying.

In Hougtong I would suggest

that the gas and Iclegraph Companies shouts

remove their pipes themselves, and that the

Government should remove the water mains

through the officer of the Public Works Ac-

partment. The work of relaying will be mou

Way

Kaa

if undertaken

& gas

Efficiently done in this by the transway promoters, because the and telegraph companies sewants and

The Public Works officers will have had

more Sxperience in pipe laying than the tram

-ould of course

the work would

Employes. The cost of be borne by the tramway Company. F. Timber decays so rapidly in tropical

Climates, that in the case of the City tramway, at Hong Kong, it would be

very

desirable to

obtain an iron permanentway similar to

the systems adopted in the Presidency towns