HARBOUR BRIDGE
AUCKLAND PROJECT
PROOF NEEDED OF PUBLIC DEMAND
(By Telegraph—Press Association^ AUCKLAND, This Day.
In an outspoken- reply to the plea of a deputation'representing North Shore boroughs for a harbour bridge to be constructed by the" Government as a national work; the Prime Minister (the Rt.,-.Hoh. ? M.;;j.-S.ayage) J ..demanded that they should,first prove, to the Government that the people'wanted the bridge. ■"'■':;■' "I cannot'see any violent enthusiasm at all." added the Prime ■ Minister; On his return to Wellington :,he intended getting the Treasury to analyse .some of the figures that had been: "spilled about for years." '. T .;■'.'
"I have occasion to believe that.these will be very different from what- we have seen in-circulars iii recent years." he said. When convinced -that thers was a demand for the 'bridge from Auckland, then they would consider tackling the job. • ■ . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 12
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