The Gorge Bridge.
DEPUTATION to the MINISTER OF LANDS. [By Telegraph]
Wellington, This day. A deputation representing local bodies waited on the Minister of Lands this morning to consider the question of the reconstruction of the Lower Gorge bridge. The deputation consisted of Messra Leithbridge (Manchester Road Board), Whitcombe (Chairman Pahiatua County Council), Haggen (Mayor of Woodviile), J. o<)tter, and Hall, Carnell, Stevens, Hogg, and Pirani, Ms.H.R. The deputation urged that the Government should take over the road and bridge, and reconstruct the latter. Mr Pirani opposed the reconstruction of the bridge, and urged the bridge at Hokowhitu instead, to suit the Palmerston people, that bridge would only be a mile and a-half above the present Fitzherbert bridge. The Minister said he recognised the importance of the matter, and would lay the request before the Cabinet. He asked that the Manchester Road Board should supply him with a statement of returns from the toll, though he considered the next question would be to have the toll removed, and readily admitted it was a barbarous way of obtaining public works.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XIII, Issue 2384, 26 June 1895, Page 2
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179The Gorge Bridge. Woodville Examiner, Volume XIII, Issue 2384, 26 June 1895, Page 2
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