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1901 A major drainage and water supply scheme was initiated.  1903 The tram service to Kingsland opened with the terminus outside Page’s Store. This remained the end of the western line until 1912 – a horse-drawn bus service left Page’s to take travellers further a field. By July 1912 tramlines and overhead wires allowed trams to reach Morningside and in September 1915 the service ran to Mt Albert.  The year 1903 had its misfortunes for the young tramway and transport system. On board the Elingamite, wrecked off Great Barrier Island, were eleven tram motormen on their way from Sydney to work with the Auckland Tramway Company. Three were drowned. Also drowned were a number of horses, part of a shipment destined for a well-known horse-drawn bus company.
On Christmas Eve of 1903 a tram accident at Kingsland was a shock to the whole country. The crowded, double-decker No. 39 was carrying shoppers to the city from the Kingsland terminus just after dark with motorman Fred Humphrey at the controls. In Eden Terrace the handbrake failed and the car rolled backwards downhill towards Kingsland. The pole came off the wire and thrashed about , killing a woman and injuring others on the top deck. The interior was plunged into darkness and the car rolled, gathering substantial velocity, for about 800 metres and collided with city-bound car No. 32, despite the latter’s attempt to reverse. The accident left three dead and fifty injured, and great damage to the timber-bodied tramcars. Sep 24 1903 The ‘Kingsland Tram Disaster’ killed three and injured about fifty people. 1904 The main road was lit with gas lamps. 1906 The Volunteer Fire Brigade was established on the site of the present-day (former) fire station building. |
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