PAREMATA BRIDGE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 8

PAREMATA BRIDGE

Satisfaction Over Loan Poll EARLY START ON WORK EXPECTED Congratulations poured in yesterday upon Mr. R. L. Button, member for the Taupo riding on the Hutt County Council, on the result of the loan poll for bhe new traffic bridge at Pareinata. “I have just had a ring front the county clerk, who told me that there was another vote from Pukerua Bay and three from Plinnnerton in favour of the proposal,” said Mr. Button, when called upon yesterday.

“I think an 85 per cent, win is a great, majority, and what is more, I honestly believe that it expresses the feeling of the riding. It is a very delightful win, and 1 think that even those who voted against, the bridge will live long enough to see thak we are doing a gjieat thing for the district. The Plimmerton vote was pretty solid, and I think that this bridge is going to put that place on the map. “One of the nipsl pleasing incidents of polling day was when Mrs. Walker (of the Walker estate) went into the Hutt County Council’s office to vote, and placed on the table the signed and sealed deed of the land that is going

to constitute the two-mile road from Plimmerton railway station to Pukerua. The deed bore h£T own signature and those of the other four trustees in the estate. There was a gesture if you like.” The Public Works Department is to design and erect a steel and concrete bridge with a 24ft. roadway and a 4ft. footpath, 495 ft. long, between Pareinata (alongside the railway bridge) and the laud on the other side of the Pahautanui inlet. This land is the property of the Walker estate, which lias not only donated the two-mile strip between Plimmerton and Pukerua, but has also given the land for the one mile of road between the new bridge and Plimmerton. The Public Works engineers have already. made preliminary surveys of the site, and it' is understood that they intend to press on with the work of bridge-building and road-formation” as soon as possible.