THE HARBOUR BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 6

THE HARBOUR BRIDGE.

The Harbour Board, among other objections u * bridge across the harbour, argues that it should be more to the westward and hare a greater clearance than that proposed by the advocates of the scheme. As a wav out may a humb,e la yman, suggest that • double lifting span" might be provided, thereby enabling vessels of all descriptions to pas. thtough it at any state of the tide. By such - n v*^ angC ? e ? t jt mi E ht be possible to have a bridge of lower level even than the on* i? 1 ® eXtr * 0081 of the "lifting Jf- OUld , most Probably be countered 1? the erecting of a lower bridge than that rajr'.s* bo •, , ?^ wit,, ****** of It would be very seldom that the SSMTS 1 , required to be used, and when used the delay to traffic would not exceed a few minßtea, according u. Mr experia*. ta London. With this means of ships being able to pass through the bridge it would nolonger 10 P,aCe il higher n P the harbour proposed. It is a pity that «vmn««vf , n °t take a more expansive and ympathetie view of the proposal to link up both sides of this great and growing cit?! the S%KrK 8 -«T OUld h* eqnal,y a PP«caWe to the S>dney bridge. SINE NOMINEE.