Service bridge over Avon
Sir. — If the Minister of Health at this time of deepening economic crisis finds it necessary to order an immediate halt to Hospital Board developments, even works already begun, logically there must be an immediate stop also to plans for a service bridge over the Avon. Justification for it, on practical grounds, no longer exists, notwithstanding tribunal hearings or decisions pending. All sorts of urgent public works- are being ruthlessly axed. If the national taxpayers can no longer carry that burden of lavish hospital boards’ spending, neither can Christchurch ratepayers and taxpayers be expected to carry this additional project, condemned universally in any case on moral and aesthetic grounds. This is surely the moment for all concerned groups — ratepayers and residents associations and environmental groups — to unite in scotching one more attempt by acquisitive, bureaucratic planners to take over yet another area of the most precious beautiful reserve this city' possesses. —Yours, etc., MRS V. F. JOBBERNS. July 19, 1979.
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