LARGE PUBLIC WORKS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 3

LARGE PUBLIC WORKS

QUEENSLAND SCHEMES

BRIDGE; DAM AND ROADS A passenger by Ilia Moiunvui, at A in-1; land, from Sydney, was Mr J. 11. Kemp, Commissioner lor .Main Roads, (Queensland, who is making a sliorl I visit to New Zealand. I The Queensland Government, said Mr Kemp, had embarked upon a large roading programme, and from July I last up to llie present had spell I £S")(),000 'on loads in the State. The expenditure in the last financial year was £1,(500,000. The Const rue I ion Boards of the Bureau of Industry, Queensland, of which he was at present chairman, Mr Kemp continued, were now engaged in the const ruction of a large bridge over the Brisbane River at i

Kangaroo Point at a cost of more than £1,300,000. The total length of the structure was nboul two-thirds of a mile, the centre span being 000 ft. The engineer was Dr .1. J. 0. Brudlield, who was responsible for the erection of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The work was being financed by a loan on the security of the toll revenue.

Air Kemp said I lie construction of the. Kangaroo Point Bridge and other works had -been started primarily with the object of relieving unemployment. A similar nmlcrtakini; was ihe 'Stanley River dam, which was being constructed at a cost of £1,750,00.(1. 11 would serve a duai purpose, the prevention of floods and the provision of water for Brisbane and Ipswich. In addition to being chairman of a Royal Commission at present inquiring into the supply of electricity for Queensland, Mr Kemp is a member of ihe Brisbane Rotary Club.