BRIDGE ACROSS WAITEMATA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 8

BRIDGE ACROSS WAITEMATA.

FAVORED I)3f.' BERRENHEAD. * The proposal to bridge the Waitemata harbor, which is included in the Subjects to be investigated by the Auckland Canals and Inland Waterways Com mission, was discussed by the Birkenlicad Borough Council. ' r The Mayor, Mr J. P. MePhail, said at Ilia instance, of the- Birkenhead Conn- • il-tho Waitemata bridge, was included in the order of reference of- fcjie. Waterways Commission in 1914, which, owing to the war, was disbanded;, The, Com« mission had been revived} and-would sit this month, and ho time should be los‘ hv the Council in placing, all infonna tion before, that tribunal. z Oil tho motion of Cr.T. G. Skcates, by Cr. E. C. Walton,' it was unanimously..decided to support the proposal to bridge the Waitemata harbor, and to meet Mr. Harris, M.P., rola f live to the cvidenco to bei giVefi before the Commission. ' < - v fV. Walton said tho Council,-should nof only co-operate, with Mr.. Harris, bu< tender-all evidence ..that-- could -bii col.looted. Fvidcnco-in ■ favor of a- tumid under the harbors arid 1 for a bridge higher up the harbor, was to bo given •as counter proposals, • but' tho bridge should connect with tho: main arterial road in Birkenhead or. adjacent thereto'.