HUGE NEW BRIDGE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6

HUGE NEW BRIDGE

TURNING FIRST SOD.

CALIFORNIAN ENTERPRISE.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8

, The ceremony of turning the first sod of o.m of the world’s greatest bridge projects, to l!nk Sau Francisco with Oakland, as a, cost of 70,000,000 dollars, will take place to-morrow. The Federal Reconstruction Corporation i.s providing the. .finances. This-is entirely separate from the Golden Gate span - , which it •is proposed to erect several miles further to the'west.

The two principal spans are 2300 ft., and each, at its highest point, will ho 505 t. above the water. ,

Terha Ruena Island is in the-centre. San Francisco Bay will contain a tunnel 500 ft. long, connecting the East a iid West hay sections of 'the huge bridge.

Speaking ■ lastly of love of others, liis Excelene.y said ’that beautiful building was made up of bricks and arches and ' pillars- reminding them ■that however well • prepared' the units of construction -might be; they would never get -su noble edifice unless./they all adhered together and'’bore their Part in upholding the structure. Their •headmaster had reminded ’them that perhaps the most salient thought for them to entertain at the present time was that none of them could live to himself. CREAT RESPONSIBILITY ’ “We none of ns can achieve /the best iin ourselves,” said . Lord Bledisloe, “and certainly none of us can achieve the best we can do for others unless we arc conscious that we are all members one of another.” If they would make the great Structure of our Empire noble and’gracious they must do their part to maintain it oil the good j foundations laid in such an institution las King’s College. So would they do /their part .not' only to make’ the ‘British Empire’great, but the world a hinueli happier and better place itl con- i .sequence of their coming into it. “God bless von,- boys; good luck to you, ’ men,” said His Excellency in closing. He urged them to bear in mind the enormous responsibility of i having enjoyed tlie education given at the college, and.reail.se that it behoved j them to do nothing in either word, or thought or action that would shame their ’’ school or lower the standard which they had attained when they | left it. ;