BLACKBALL BRIDGE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18721, 18 June 1926, Page 17

BLACKBALL BRIDGE.

A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. (special to THE PBSSS.) WELLINGTON, Jane 17. In the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr Holland asked the Prime Minister a question without notice in regard to the Blackball bridge, which Je said had been wrecked twice by floods. He understood that the bridce ■M been built about twenty years ago If T tr u c ?' a n«l an allegation, the truth ,*,,£*? x he ,°° u,d not vouch for was H; J*!?* fc ¥ contractor, instead of driving the piles to the full depth, had stated tt f W ° n them - lt had stated that in some cases nine feet, tZLt ?*i a ? d , evcn thirteen and fouru£ m had been °ff some of h?A rIV , order to 6ave driving. It land S'W Mid Mr HoiflW in i the dama ge done by the flood had revealed that these stateEl™ 1 "? correct He **«* if the S m ! nt WOuld ha ™ the strictest avertgafcoii mto the matter made. Smf. W6re found that the stateshould hf? i° orreCt rV that le « al acti on n 7l d ,, be taken. Heavy trains carrybrid™ t nd , went across the eered an ,ife waß endan ' thahnf h" 3 !! M , in > 1 s t er . »" reply, said aS Sd v, gS had , been built 23 years "olleaeue l V 0,, M J»ve to consult h,> Wort? ',|J*? for Public S;» ?',!• As M inist«r for at nil +J I .He.had no objection reed n~ K enq .T y - As to ,e * al P r <> S"i,to. , n C >v d not , in tne