NGARUAWAHIA TRAFFIC BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 8

NGARUAWAHIA TRAFFIC BRIDGE.

• i j A LUXATION 01-' CONTRIBUTIONS, j <Py Ttlc-ripli Own l"jrresp»!iOeu;.) 1 HAMILTON, this day. | The report of (he commission which' recently sat to allocate tlu' a-ontribu-ti.uis lo the proposed new 'traffic bridge over the Waikato Uiver at Ngatu.iwalua, l.a- lixed the proportions as follow-: — Waikato county. SO per cent: Waip.i county. 10 per cent: Itiiglun county. .1 ' per cent; Ngaruawahia Town Hoard*. 2,7, per cent. The Waikato county's con- j tribution therefore remains as hitherto proposed, but tlie Waipa ami Itaglalt , counties' proportions have each been I reduced to one-hall', and the difference : added to the proportion to be paid by ! the Ngaruawahia Town Hoard. In a letter to the Waipa County Conn- i cil ou tlie -object yesterday, tbe city I .solicitors. Messrs Svv.irbii.-k and Swar-| brick, said they were -till of ihe opinion that the Waipa county should ndi have had to pay. ut tlie outside, more than | .'• per cent, hut they were greatly handicapped at the hearing by thr fact of, I tlie Council having offered to pay up jto 17i per cent. The amount now to he paid hy the Council was t.'Jlj.a, as against £730 claimed. I r I