PROPOSED NEW TRAFFIC BRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14029, 4 April 1919, Page 2

PROPOSED NEW TRAFFIC BRIDGE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —That a traffic bridge is urgently required at the northern end of the town is generally admitted, and that it will be constructed some time in the near future goes without saying. The obvious conclusion, therefore, is that the sooner a decision is arrived at as to the necessity of commencing the work at an early date, the belter it will be for Hamilton and surrounding districts. If the business community of Hamilton had even a faint conception of the enormous amount of trade which has been lost to the town and diverted elsewhere, through the difficult and inadequate access to the town, and Us poor bridging accommodation, they would rise as one man and insistently press their demands, and bring pressure to bear on the authorities, until the matter assumed a definite shape and there was every likelihood of it being brought to a successful issue. As matters now stand, very many well-to-do and successful farmers have given Hamilton the go-by, and transferred their business to Cambridge, Morrinsville, etc., seeing that apparently so many in Hamilton are either ignorant or indifferent as to the difficulty and inconvenience caused in getting their stock to the saleyards. Mr E. H. Hammond, president of the Waikato SubProvincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, stated at their last meeting “that there was no doubt a bridge would be built at the northern end of the town in the near future; then why not now, as the difficulties of getting into town are so great that one had literally to fight one’s way in?” It is a matter of satisfaction that the new bridge question has been added as a plank to the platform of the Hamilton Citizens’ Association for candidates to the forthcoming Borough Council elections, and seeing the matter has been taken up by the Chamber of Commerce, and has the unanimous and hearty support of the sub-provin-cial executive of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union, it is sincerely to be hoped that the f ne is not far distant when another traffic bridge, worthy of this import." -,t centre, will span the Waikato Rive- at some convenient spot at the northern end of the town. Anyone into .igently studying the map of the now combined towns of Hamilton and Frankton will readily recognise the immense and numerous advantages to be gained by the carrying out of the proposed scheme. —I am, etc., COCKATOO. Te Rapa, April 2, 1919.