OTAHUHU WORKSHOPS.
I<AND PURCHASED FOR £33,106
OVERHEAD BRIDGE COST £ 3228,
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) • > WELLINGTON, Thursday. The total purchase price of the land acquired for the Otahuhu railway workshops was £33,196, according to a return tabled in the House of Representatives to-day. , One portion, 102 acres, was purchased Buckland and Sons, Ltd.* for £30,000; another five acres and roods of Crown land for £1896, and a third of two roods from E. J. Eddy, for £1300. The cost of the overhead bridge recently erected at Otahuhu was £3228. This bridge replaced a public levelcrossing at Portage Road and a private level-crossing giving access to the A. and P. Association's land. The Portage Road crossing was actually closed by the acquisition of land by the Railway Department making the crossing unnecessary. The bridge gave access to: tins railway land along a strip of land acquired from the A. and P. Association. The . association Was in 1906 promised a public level-orossing in the vicinity, to afford aiSjple acccss to its property for showground purposes, in place of its private level-crowing. .This proposal was rendered impracticable by extensive additions to the Otahuhu yard, and a bridge was substituted. Towards its cost the association contributed £1050.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 10
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