SAFETY OF HIGHWAYS
AIM OF MINISTER NEW BRIDGE OPENED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
"I am determined to improve the highways of this country and to widen them and cut out dangerous zig-zagging climbs wherever possible," said the lion. R. Semphj, the Minister of Transport, at the opening of the J'aremata bridge on Saturday.
Mr. Semple said that the proposed road from Plimmerton to Paekakariki would cost £2CO,COO. There woidd be SCO or 400 men working on the route before many months. A few hours after the opening of the bridge the ■first smash occurred hall' a mile away between two motor cars. One. of the vehicles was badly damaged, but no one was hurt.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 5
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