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on reclaimed ground. Where it is laid on natural ground the

separate strips of concrete are allowed. It must be remembered,

however, that the greater part of the tramway will be laid on

reclaimed ground.

B.

The Director of Public Works has not gone

beyond the Board of Trade requirements as stated in the con-

cluding paragraph of your Despatch under reference. The drawing

No. 3 referred to in that paragraph is incorrect. The space

between the tracks is not required to be concreted to a depth

of 14 inches. This space is only required to have 6 inches of

concrete on the surface.

0.

To the knowledge of the Company the

Director of Public Works originally advised concreting the

whole surface between the tracks so as to avoid the dangerous

breaks which are apt to develop at the junction of concrete

and macadam, but on the assurance of the Promoters that a width

of not more than 4 feet would be required between the tracks

and on their representations that it would be a great hardship

to compel the Company to maintain a greater width than this

if obliged to place the tracks further apart on account of

trees or other obstructions in the centre of the roadway, the

space to be maintained by them between the tracks was restrict-

ed to 4 feet (Section 14 of the Ordinance). It is evident

from this that it was intended to adopt the side-pole form of

construction.

D.

When the cross-sections were deposited,

they showed that, in the wider thoroughfares, the centre-pole

form of construction was to be adopted, the tracks being spaced

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