TUNNEL ROAD BILL

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27688, 18 June 1955, Page 6

TUNNEL ROAD BILL

COMMITTEE TO STUDY DRAFT LEGISLATION THIS SESSION SOUGHT The Tunnel Road Promotion Committee is to be called together shortly to consider the Tunnel Road Authority Bill. The acting-chairman of the committee (Mr R. A. Witbrock), in reply to an inquiry yesterday, said that as soon as the job of typing sufficient copies of the bill was completed he would call a meeting of the committee. The executive of the committee met on May 25, when it was announced that the draft bill would be presented soon to a meeting of the full committee, on which all Christchurch, Lyttelton and contiguous local bodies are represented. After it has been considered by the full committee the bill will be circulated, with any alterations suggested by the committee, to each organisation concerned.

The bill, which provides for a Government guarantee instead of rating powers, authorises the establishment of a tunnel road authority empowered to “construct, maintain, manage, and control the tunnel road.” Mr Witbrock said yesterday that the executive was “quite happy’’ with the bill, and he thought there was nothing contentious in it. Assuming that the session of Parliament lasted until September or October, he thought the bill should be ready for presentation to the House of Representatives during that session.