GRAFTON BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 10

GRAFTON BRIDGE.

ERECTION OF FENCE.

GUY COUNCIL PROJECT.

STATEMENT BY MAYOR,

A recommendation-to the works committee that a guard fence be erected along the Grafton Bridge parapet is to be made, according to a decision reached at a special meeting of the finance committee of the City Council last evening. Plans were approved, subject to the committee being satisfied with them. The Mavor, Mr. Ernest Davis, said that the framing would consist of steel channel uprights, bolted to the concrete balustrading, the iron angle framing to be supported by crimped wire netting panels. The whole of the iron work was to be galvanised, painted and erected flush with the inside. The total height from the footpath level would be Bft, 9in, with 4ft of the fence above the parapet.

In the top angle of the framing provision would be made for two strands of barbed wire, the guard fence extending for 600 ft along each side of the bridge.

Mr. Davis said that the works committee would deal- with the matter in time for submission of the scheme at the next meeting of the City Council. The steel work would have to be imported, and it would therefore be some time before the fence could be erected.