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Early Wellington

[introduction]

At the Town Board meeting held on the 23rd February, 1866, the Town Board commissioners granted the long-desired permission of Mr. Tonks to make a tramway for conveying the rubbish for the reclamation of land.

Mr. W. Tonks had secured the contract to reclaim 13 acres of land, from Panama Street to the north of Waring Taylor Street, including the construction of a sea-wall, for the sum of £24,792. Soil for filling in the different reclamations was obtained from the hillside at the rear of the Lambton Quay sections, Kumutoto (Woodward Street) to Boulcott Street. Mr. Tonks even proposed to lay a tramway by way of Manners Street and Cuba Street to Webb Street, to bring spoil from there. Permission was granted by the Town Board, but he only used the tramway from Willis and Boulcott Streets, also a tram from Kumutoto (Baillie's Early Reclamations, p. 713).