JULIA’S BRIDGE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 56, Issue 32913, 24 September 1947, Page 8

JULIA’S BRIDGE

RECONDITIONING TO BE DONE DISCUSSION IN COUNCIL A letter stating that the Works Department district engineer in Auckland could not approve of highway funds being expended on a present bridge alignment when it was possible to make a marked improvement in the safety of the approaches, was received by the September meeting of the Coromandel County Council. The letter stated that if the Coromandel council wished to strengthen the Julia’s bridge on its present alignment it could do so by using local timber bought out of ordinary funds. In the discussion that followed the readini g of the letter it was stated that the Works Department had approved all plans. Cr. A. J. Denize

said that the council did not blame the Works Department for not having gone on with a new bridge, but to ask the council ,to spend £l5OO on a temporary structure when there was a reasonable alignment at present was unreasonable. There had never been an accident at the approaches to the bridge, he said. The Works Department's suggestion to erect a temporary bridge on a site between the present bridge and the proposed new one did not meet with the approval of the council. It was finally proposed by 'Cr. Denize and seconded by Cr. A. R. Simpson that the council use the present route and recondition Julia’s bridge. The resolution was carried. ,