WAIRAU BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1926, Page 8

WAIRAU BRIDGE.

COMMISSION'S SITTING ENDED. NO DECISION ARRIVED AT. After a sitting of three days, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into tbe location of the proposed bridge across the Wairau creek concluded last evening, without any decision being arrived at. The comaiisisoner, Mr. W. S. Short. 1.5.0., will make a recommendation to the Governor-General, suggesting which scheme should be adopted. At the conclusion of tbe hearing yesterday he promised that he would weigh the evidence very carefully before making his decision. It would mean a disappointment to one side or the other; but he believed that, in future years, when the feelinrr over the question had quietened down, it would be agreed that his decision was in the interests of both the county and the borough. The question at issue is a simple one. On the one side the Waitemata County Council favours the construction of the bridge at the Craig Road site, and Mr. McVeagh, representing the council, pro duced the evidence of sixteen witnesses in the course of the hearing. The Takapuna Borough Council produced a later scheme, in which it sought to have the bridge located at the Inga Road site,

three hundred yards higher up the stream. Mr. Lowrie, who conducted the case for the council, called twenty witnesses to give evidence. At the conclusion of the hearing the commissioner complimented the counsel for the two local bodies upon the completeness with whic-h they bad covered the ground.