THE CEMETERY GULLY BRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 8 May 1906, Page 3

THE CEMETERY GULLY BRIDGE.

Sir,—At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Auckland centre of the St. John Ambulance Association it was unanimously resolved that I should write a letter strongly urging the citizens to vote in favour of the loan for the purpose of constructing a traffio bridge across the Cemetery Gully for the sake of those who may require to bo taken to the hospital. The wharves, Queen-street, the streets converging thereon, an busy thoroughfares like Karangahape and I on son by Roads are naturally the places where accidents most frequently occur. At present the unfortunate'patients have to be conveyed right up Symonds-street and along Kliyber Pass Road, when being t-akon to the , hospital. Were a traffic bridgo constructed across the Cemetery Gully the time occupied in transit would be reduced by from a-quarter to half an hour; the more serious the injury the slower the transit. That saving of time would often make the difference between saving or losing a limb, or even between life and death. I would' therefore, strongly urge the ratepayers to vote unanimously in favour of the loan for the traffic bridge. William Rattbat, Secretary of Auckland Centre, St. John Ambulance Association.