THE MANGERE EMBANKMENT SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 124, 26 May 1911, Page 6

THE MANGERE EMBANKMENT SCHEME.

hold a meeting of Manure ™? flOn to consider the Sftfc of a ferro-concrete bridge. 30ft S U replaco the present structure TK* , t0 informed that not more than 2 n w $ payers were present, including-thM)? and that about half of then, wted W resolution in favour of a confcSi Jj the Onehunga Borough Council T the construct ion of the bridge. This „ 8 ution. he points out. is .tnrijjft the various meetings of Manma? ~£ pavers which have the scheme for an embankment S lock-, providing a roadway of not W tW 40ft wide, costing f 18,000, ttVZjfrf the Wnikato-Tamaki barge canal E£ This scheme had received the enl~ nwnt of the Auckland ProvincialUtato trial Association, but had been oppoS by the Mayor of Onehunga and the S ter of Marine and Railways. He data, that his efforts to secure" a Government subsidy for thie ' prZsal have hitherto failed, but he recentlS viewed the Hon. George Fowlde £ subject, who promised to bring the'nSf ter a K ain before the Cabinet' Zj? eludes: "The Mayor of Onehunga i s £ ported as saying in Tuesday's ils,i c tlSh the bridge had nothing to do with the X«% hour. And yet the ratepayers of VVaiul-,i Mangeie, Otahuhu, and about, a dozto local bodies along the Tamaki River W expressed a strong desire, by resolution and otherwifc, that the lock and embankment scheme Should be adopted, so as to mi,, the harbour what it should be, for inlaui navigation, by providing constant full, tide water between the Mangere and Pan. mure embankments. The suggestion te revert to an open ferro-concrete bridse does not indicate the mind of a '''latL majority of Mangere ratepayers. Ifm. only on March 6 that they unanimous!* endorsed my resolution carried at ; tie Hamilton Canal Conference—to confer with the new Auckland Harbour Board on the whole question. So why tiis \m, seemly haste to ignore them?" ;