MAJOR WORKS
PLANS FOR AUCKLAND ABOUT £10,000,000 INVOLVED P.A. AUCKLAND, Aug. 18. After 16 months of planning, investigation and surveying by engineers of the Auckland branch of the Public Works Department, the 10-year-plan for Auckland, announced in April last by the Minister of Works, Mr Semple is beginning to take shape. The first construction likely to begin in the near future will probably involve the widening of the Great South road The adoption by the Government of the Auckland harbour bridge proposal has resulted in modifications of the plan originally announced. Chief of these is a major change in the proposed high-speed road through Whenuapai to the north A major work not included in the 10-vear-plan but of similar importance, is a proposal to provide Auckland with a civil airport. Every available member of the engineering staff of the department in Auckland has been occupied on the surveys, investigations and costing of the jobs that, between them, represent an expenditure of possibly £10,000,000
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26543, 19 August 1947, Page 9
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