NOT CONSULTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 9

NOT CONSULTED.

REPAIRS TO WHAU BRIDGE.

EXPLANATION SOUGHT.

POSITION OP CITY COUNCIL.

Surprise was expressed at a meeting of the Works Committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon that the New Lynn Town Board had started repairing the Whau Bridge without consulting the City Council. The chairman (Mr. J. Dempsey) said that the New Lynn Town Board should be asked to explain the position, seeing that the City Council's share of the cost would be 42J per cent. At the moment the City Council was in entire ignorance as to what was being done. The city engineer said that the chairman of the Main Highways Board had stated that it was not possible to say what would be the necessary ( clearance above high water, and that a communication on that point would be sent. The board had also made its position clear in regard to the amount of subsidy that would be available. The Chairman: Can they do anything they like without consulting us? The city engineer said that the cost amongst the affected local bodies had been gazetted. He considered that the New Lynn Town Board had the right to go oil. The Chairman: Probably they have. The city engineer said that it was not done in a very nice way. The unpleasant part was that he had been asked to confer with the Town Board, and almost the next morning he was rung up to say that the Highways Board had consulted the engineer of the New Lynn Town Board. The chairman said that they were quite in accord with strengthening the bridge in order to do away with the traffic officers that had been necessary to regulate the traffic. It was decided to communicate with the New Lynn Town Board on the subject.