HARBOUR BRIDGE AT AUCKLAND
AUTHORITY’S APPROACH TO PRIME MINISTER (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 10. Without Government approval of the necessary financial arrangements, the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority could not proceed with the major work of constructing the bridge and its approaches, said Sir John Allum, the chairman of the authority, today. He was commenting on a Wellington ‘report that the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) had told the authority that the Government’s policy was that finance for the project must be raised overseas.
Sir John Allum said that the authority was still in communication with the Prime Minister, and until further word was received from him he desired to make no further comment. He added that any delay in constructing the harbour bridge would leave unsolved the problem of trans-harbour traffic which, as the Prime Minister himself had said, was “quite intolerable.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 5
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