HARBOUR BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 197, 21 August 1929, Page 9

HARBOUR BRIDGE.

COMMISSION TO INQUIRE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION. DETAILS FOR ARRANGEMENT. ASSOCIATION" TO BE CONSULTED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government has decided to set up a commission to investigate the feasibility of the Auckland Harbour Bridge scheme. The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, said to-day that this commission would sit in Auckland at a date yet to be fixed, and the opinions of experts and of all parties interested would be heard. Sir Joseph stated that the cost of the commission would not be inclusive of the £1000 which the Government had agreed to give for a survey of the harbour bed. The personnel of the commission had not been arranged, but it would include at least one officer of the Public Works Department. The Prime Minister, replying to a question, said it would not be a Royal commission, but something in the nature of a Departmental inquiry, and it would! conduct its proceedings in close cooperation with tlie Harbour Bridge Association. He added that details of the inquiry had yet to be arranged at subsequent meetings of Cabinet. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, stated, in an interview, that the commission would hear evidence brought by the committee 01 the Harbour Bridge Association. Later it would report to the Government on the feasibility of spanning the Waitemata Harbour with a traffic bridge. The Auckland Harbour Bridge Association was being asked to submit suggestions to the Government in regard to the best method to adopt in setting up the commission, and when that report came to hand more detailed information regarding the Government's proposals would be given. ,