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AUCKLAND HARBOUR BRIDGE £y Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, March 10. In an outspoken reply to the plea of a deputation representing North Shore boroughs for the harbour bridge to be undertaken by the Government as a national work, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage demanded that they should first prove to the Government that the people wanted the bridge. “I can’t see any violent enthusiasm at all,” added the Prime Minister. On his return to Wellington he intended to get the Treasury to analyse some of the figures that “haw been spilled about for years. I have occasion to believe that these will e very different from what we have seen circulated in recent years.” When the Government was convinced that there was a demand for the bridge from Auckland, then it would consider tackling the job.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20673, 11 March 1937, Page 8
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