HARBOUR BRIDGE.
CITY'S ATTITUDE. THE COMPANY'S CHARTER. COUNCIL UNANIMOUS. After discussing in committee certain proposals placed before it in connection with the proposed Auckland harbour bridge, the City Council last evening unanimously decided to recommend the forfeiture of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Company's charter and the repeal of the Empowering Act. The Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, after the meeting, said that the council had unanimously decided that it must be a precedent to the giving of any fresh consideration to the council's attitude towards the bridge proposal that the charter held by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Company, Ltd., should be surrendered to the Government, and that the Auckland Harbour Bridge Empowering Act, 1931, be repealed. The Auckland Harbour Bridge Company was formed in 1930, and registered with a capital of £5000 in £1 shares. The Empowering Act gave the company two years and three months in which to make a start with the building of the bridge, but this time elapsed. However, an extension of time, considered to be indefinite, was granted, but the position in eo far as starting on the bridge is concerned remains the same.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1935, Page 3
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