SYDNEY’S BRIDGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 70, 22 February 1932, Page 7

SYDNEY’S BRIDGE.

SPEECHES ON OPENING DAY. The full programme of the ceremonies at th& opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been issued, says the Sydney correspondent of the JMelbourne Argus. Even the most seasoned auditors will shiver at the prospect of listening to the corps of speakers. ~ There will be no seating accommodation except for a few leading persons. The members of the audience may be envisaged as standing on one leg snd then on tli© other, employing walking sticks and umbrellas as partial support while the perspiration trickles from them. ' . , . Hot weather is often experienced in Sydney in March, but it may be that rain will trickle from the audience, for rain also has been known in that month, even without warning. Uflicials of the Royal Agricultural Society have sometimes had to regard the receipts of the day mournfully. The speakers will include the Governor, the Premier, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, the Minister of Works, members of Parliament representing tho City of Sydney and the North Shore, -the Mayor of North Sydney, the chief engineer for tho Government, Dr. Bradfield, and two representatives of Messrs Dorman, Long and Company, who built the bridge. In© speaking and the crossing of the bridge by the procession will occupy two hours and a half, perhaps more. It is typical of prevailing political paltriness that Mr Ball, M.L.A., has received no invitation. He was Minister of Works in a previous Ministry, who put the building of the bridge in hand. He turned the first sod ot the approaches,- and he recommended to the Cabinet the acceptance of the tender of Messrs Dorman, Long ana Company. ■