HARBOUR BRIDGE SITE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 10

HARBOUR BRIDGE SITE.

ASSOCIATION'S CHOICE. START FROM FREEjWAN'S BAY. The site of the proposed, bridge to span the Waitemata Harbour was tentatively decided upon at a meeting of the Auck land Harbour Bridge Association last evening, Mr. E. G. Skeates, Mayor of Birkenhead, presided. The sub-committee appointed to con fer with the association's honorary en gineers and" others who had shown in terest in the movement, unanimously recommended that the site, to be investi gated for the future harbour bridge should be from Beaumont Street, Freeman's Bay, iin a northerly direction to a point about midway between Northcote and Bayswater Points, to be thence connected by causeways to Devonport, Bayswater* and Northcote. The chairman said the estimated cost of the bridge and causeways was £750,000. The route recommended was practically that submitted by Mr. R. F Moore, but was now backed up b> Messrs. Jones and Adams, who also sub mitted a scheme, and by the association's honorary engineers, Messrs. F. E. Powell and F. Finch. The committee's recommendation was unanimously adopted. Rules were drawn up with a view to having the association incorporated. f An additional scheme for the bridge has been submitted to the association by Mr., ! W. J. A. Broadbent, civil engineer. The design shows a bridge, wholly in ferroconcrete, from Freeman's Bay to Stokes Point, Northcote. The length of the bridge proper would be 5030 ft., the total distance, with approaches from Freeman's Bay to the existing concrete road at Northcote, being about one mile 13 chains. The estimated cost, ,witb approaches complete, including engineering costs and a reasonable allowance for all probable contingencies was, in round figures, £700,000. The association decided to thank Mr. Broadbent for his scheme.