losure 2.
15th August,
447
6 feet 6 inches apart, instead of 4 feet.
The Director of Public Works' approval of
the centre pole system was a concession as the poles obstruct
traffic and as the tracks, being 6' 6" apart, occupy a greater
width of the roadway.
F.
"The Director of Public Works was induced
to make this concession partly by the Company's voluntarily
undertaking to concrete the whole 6' 6" as shown in the cross
section.
G.
The cross-section was duly approved by
the Director of Public Works under the Ordinance Section 13
which provides inter alia, that the work shall be executed in
accordance with such approved cross-section.
H.
Construction has actually been begun under
the approved cross-section in certain localities.
3.
No twithstanding this correspondence the
Director of Public Works reported under date of the 15th.
ultimo (copy of minute attached) that the Resident Engineer
of the Tranway Company had disregarded his letter of the 20th.
of July and had caused a length of double track of Tramway to
be constructed contrary to the approved cross-section. In
consequence of this action I have authorised the Director of
Public Works to inform the Company's Resident Engineer that
the Company having repudiated the approved cross-section must
under Section 13 of the Ordinance lay before the Director of
Public Works a new cross-section for such portions of the
road as they may in future propose to open. Unless the Director
of Public Works approves of the cross-section the Company
cannot
Page 450Page 451
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.