The Plimmerton Bridge

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 11

The Plimmerton Bridge

Sir, —It appears as if the Hutt County Council is going on with a £7OOO loan lor a £6OOO work on the Plimmerton bridge. The extra £lOOO is to pay the expenses of the last poll, a blunder incurred by the whole of the council and the cost of which should come out of the general account, as the expense of a loan carried some years ago and not gone on with was. If this loan is turned down by the ratepayers they will save themselves this £lOOO. I also noticed that the Government has put £500,000 on this year’s Estimates for roads, and the same for bridges. How much does the council contribute? As the Main Highways Board is contributing two-thirds,, this road and bridge will have to be declared a highway. The council is saddling one farthing in the pound on the capital value of this little corner of the county—the smallest riding of the lot —which lias been contributing to the highways over the whole of the county for 10 years or more. It also looks as though the Main Highways Fund, inaugurated for roads alone and now overflowing into the Consolidated Fund, could find the whole amount.—l am. etc.. INTERESTED RATEPAYER.