AUCKLAND’S HARBOUR BRIDGE
IDEA DATES BACK TO 1884 Although the Auckland harbour bridge project was declared recently to be 20 years ahead of the times, it is interesting to learn that the idea had taken shape as long ago as 1884. In the official publication covering the proceedings of tho New Zealand Institute of that year there is included a plate of the Waitemata Harbour to illustrate defence works suggested by Sir W. F. D. Jervois the Governor of the Day, in his presidential address to the institute. Although His Excellency made no mention of the bridge scheme, the plate shows Stokes Head, Northcote, and the promontory in the vicinity of Point Erin Park, connected by a “proposed bridge.” As far as can be ascertained from those connected with the advocacy of the scheme in recent years there is nothing to show that the bridge project was regarded seriously in those days, when the population of Auckland and suburbs was under 50,000, or not a quarter of the present-day figure.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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170AUCKLAND’S HARBOUR BRIDGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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