LARGE NEW BRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20841, 7 April 1931, Page 10

LARGE NEW BRIDGE.

HAWKESBURY RIVER SCHEME. ESTIMATED COST ONE MILLION. The eitdeavnnrs Imiiij.; made lo have a large road bridge lmili over (lie Hawkes bury River, about 35 miles north of Syd tiny, were mentioned yestcrtlay by Sii Hugh E. Poynter. who is a through passenger to Vancouver on tlic Aorangi. Sir Hup.li is (lie chairman of directors of Raid wins and the I.C.M. (Australia) Proprietary, Limited. The. visitor explained that at the pres ent time, there is only a railway bridge across the Ilawkesburv ltivcr on the main road north from Sydney, and all mad traffic has to be ferried over on a punt. The < ost of (lie propound bridge would be about, £1.000.000, and Ibe proposal is that it should be financed by toll fees imposed on users. An effort is being made to get Messrs. Dorma.ii, Long, the contractors for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ti? undertake 'be' work. The bridge would prove a c'' p at convenience to al! traffic on the main north road from Sydney. Sir L111a;11. who is on his way to England, is a cousin of 'Mr. Uudvard Kipling and of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Ilis father was Sir K. .1. Poynter, and he is a nephew of the late Sir Edward BurnoJoncs.