WHY NOT A BRIDGE?

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 6

WHY NOT A BRIDGE?

(Tp the Editor,)

Sir,—As a country visitor t6 Wellington and as a smallholder at I have been astonished at the interest which the Paremata-Plimmerton Bridge has created. I have only been in Wellington a few days, but I have read the decision of the Automobile Club against the bridge and I lead your able leader a nisht or two since. I was surprised to see that the Wellington Automobile Club .should have had to got the North and South Island Motor Unions to come to their rescue to get them out of the corner which they evidently find themselves in by reason of their unpopular attitude. What

do these motor unions know about the Plimmertou bridge, and what is more, what do they care about it? The Plimmerton bridge has caught the populav imagination, and I imagine that public opinion will sweep the opposition away. I have been a visitor to Plimmerton for twenty years, but every visitor to Plimmerton in the summer has to make the long deviation around the harbour, and I am surprised that the Government has not dealt with this matter long since. I hope the Hutt County Council will see the matter through now it has got so far. —I am, etc.,

BRIDGE.

Another correspondent, "Why Procrastinate," writes on the sams subject urging that an endeavour should be made, through the member for Otaki, Mr. Field, to find out why the project is 'held up. The correspondent quotes as aii example a recent communication from the District Engineer of the Public Works. Department to Palmerston North advising about a pew bridge to replace the -Fitzherbert Bridge, costing about £35,000. '■', The proposal even discussed the question of tenders and the method of financing.