FRUITLESS SEARCH

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 12

FRUITLESS SEARCH

Missing Fishermen BELIEVED DROWNED By Telegrapn—Press Association. Gisborne, December 9. A diligent search of the beaches has failed to produce further evidence in connection with the boating tragedy, nor can any person be found unaccounted for beyond two Natives named Wharekoti and Manihere Paurakau, who are missing and believed to be drowned. £40,000 TO REPLACE Fitzherbert Bridge REPORT HELD OVER Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, November 9. The special committee convened to consider the Kairanga County and Palmerston North City Council’s engineers’ jointreport on the present condition of the Fitzherbert bridge, met recently, when it was decided that consideration of the engineers’ report should be held over until a date follow’ing the interview with the Main Highways Board. The committee is to meet the Highways Board in January, when further representations are to be made in regard to an increase of subsidy. At a meeting of the Kairanga County Council to-day the chairma.i, Mr. J. Batchelor, reported that it would take £4OOO to repair the bridge, and said that he regarded such as a waste of money. The only course to pursue appeared to be the erection of another bridge. The county engineer, Mr. J. R. Menzies, said that the estimated cost of a new structure was £40,000, of which the Kairanga County Council Would have to provide £6600. This would be for a twoway traffic bridge, with a footway for pedestrians. No action was taken in the matter.