MR FRASER’S TRIP FROM WESTPORT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24960, 22 August 1946, Page 4

MR FRASER’S TRIP FROM WESTPORT

ERECTION OF BAILEY BRI SPEEDED IT

(From Our parliamentary Repo ' WELLINGTON The speeding up of the , r rin g a Bailey bridge and the cle , the Lewis Pass, of two *e« j|t enabled the Prime Minister 1 Hon. P. Fraser) to.reach" Uon rf this morning for the resumP the House this afternoon. Bad weather P r , eve " from flying back from W L js p s y terday, as planned. The „ road was blocked creek bridge, near Inanp> an d IS< been washed away by a n Bailey bridge with which j ace J. J to be bridged had not been P ftsj jp was therefore suggested Fraser should travel via ,"erf* the Otira Gorge, and Arthur» m Christchurch by roadl Wj steamer express ' ast )h ®Y ? e migW £ ever, it was thought that h S be able to reach Lyttelton in I this route. , f Mr When it was learned that , was held up the ere<d ‘°H bridge was begun about m Monday, and it was fimsnea "Uk for Mr Fraser to cross at all but one approach ms to negotiate two planks. j, PJ The Lewis Pass road rfr order after the grader h to it. and Mr Fraser was abl- J his connexion with me 0 ( v’ was Mr Fraser s first cr ° SS ‘£x « 5 Alps by this road, and oVerlD J ’ its best, with a g°° a snow.