CITY BRIDGE RENEWALS
Subsidies For This Year
The National Road® Board has made subsidies and grants at the new rate of £3 to £2 for three bridges in Christchurch city in the 1961-62 financial year. A contract has already been let for one. the Avondale road bridge, which >• estimated to cost £34.00. and on which the National Roads Board wiU meet £19200 and the City Council £12.800. The Cashmere road bridge is a boundary bridge with the Heathcote county. The city’s share of the total estimated cost is £7500. towards which the board is contributing £3900 and is making a similar subsidy available to the Heathcote County Council. The consulting engineers to the county council expect to be able to call tenders in September. The bridge is becoming unsafe and has a severe load restriction on it Replacement of the Manchester street bridge is expected to cost £27.000. but only £7OO will come to charge this year, sufficient to get the work under w’ay before the end of the financial year. The council proposes to call tenders by December. A sum of £l5OO has been approved for city culverts, but practically all of it is committed on the Campbell street culvert.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 16
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201CITY BRIDGE RENEWALS Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 16
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