WAITAKARURU BRIDGE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5229, 20 January 1928, Page 3

WAITAKARURU BRIDGE.

PKOI’OSITION BY DEPARTMENT.

'COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE.

The resident engineer of the Public Works. Department, Paeroa, wrote to the Hauraki Plains County Council pointing out that the Main Highways Amendjnent Act provided that for the purpose of reconstructing any bridge over 30ft span on. a highway a local authority could borrow the necessary funds without taking a poll of ratepayers, provided the District Highways Council and the Main Highways Board passed a resolution that such a reconstruction was necessary. If this was done in the case of the Waitakaruru Stream bridge the Highways Board, would be prepared to consider lending the necessary money over a period of years not Exceeding ten> The .writer asked if. x the council would consider this, proposition, and, if. so, what period of redemption the council anticipated applying for. In reply to Cr. Parfitt the engineer said that a £ for £ subsidy would beavailable. The Public Works Department was prepared to build the bridge, which would be fairly costly, as the structure now had to be as high as the water-mains. The council’s share of tlie cost would exceed £lOOO.

Cr. Harris said that £lOO a year would mean less than a, %d rate on the Waitakaruru riding, but if interest was charged by the Highways Board the rate would be greater;

The clerk stated that interest would be charged. ' Cr. Harris expressed tlie opinion that the proposition should be accepted, and he moved that investigat'ons be made as to the cost of the structure and rate of. Interest.—Carried.