HARBOUR BRIDGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 9

HARBOUR BRIDGE

AUCKLAND PROPOSAL DEPUTATION TO MINISTER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Arguments in favour of ttie early construction of the proposed Auckland harbour bridge were submitted today to the aeting-Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, by a deputation representing North Shore motoring and Labour interests. It was suggested to the Minister that this work could well be considered in connection with his plan to find work for hundreds of men in the Auckland district now on the unemployment register. “I would sooner see 700 men creating a bridge than remaining on sustenance,” said the Minister, in reply. He would be glad to discuss it with the Cabinet. This work already had been discussed by the Cabinet. They had contemplated an expenditure of £2,000.000, but had to consider whether a considerable portion of that money could not be better spent on land development in the Auckland district. They had felt that they were not in a position to go on with this project at once “I do not like the idea of a toll," lie added. "If we are to have a bridge, let us have a national one that will be as free to the people as any other route.”