BIRKENHEAD COUNCIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 12

BIRKENHEAD COUNCIL

SUPPORT FOR HARBOUR BRIDGE VEHICULAR FERRY CHARGES Tho Birkenhead Borouch CouncU I held its fortnightly meeting last ever. ins. the Mayor. .Mr. K. O. Skeates, p I siding. tne sum ot f .... !>s 2d was receive, I trom the city treasurer, being 1 councils share of heavy traffic license ; fees for three months ended Decemb^ Air. A. Al. Bickford, honorary secre. j tary of the proposed Birkenhead Gnu ; Club, wrote advising that the site * | the Birkenhead Domain offered to i> ! olub by the council for a golf C ou r * • was found to bo unsuitable aft, T ! obtaining the best’ possible advice I the subject. A donation of £ 3 3s was donated to tho Birkenhead and Northcote Brigade to help to send three firemen away to a demonstration. Jt was decided to give the Post and Telegraph Department 14 days u , which to move the public telephone box on the footpath in front of the post office, nearer to the post off.ee building. Dr. Herbert Chesson, Medical Officer of Health, advised that the reguia. tions in connection with drainage and plumbing under the Health Act 1920 i for Birkenhead, had nov been gazetted to take effect from B’ebi uary 1. It was decided to write to the Devonport Ferry Company about the vehicu- | lar ferry charges, which were higher to Birkenhead than to Devonport, n( j ito ask for a later night service. The | Xortheote Council is to be asked for their support. In reply to an expression of opinion being asked for from the Alarine Boroughs’ Association on the harbour bridge question, the Alayor stated that the Marine Boroughs’ Association should help the bridge project as it was vitally important to the four North Shore boroughs, and that it was time the people this side of the harbour stood up like men and demanded the bridge. He criticised the Alayor of Auckland’s statement about a bridge j 100 feet wide ana said there v.as no I road in Auckland at the present Hiy feet wide. “If we cannot get a 66ft bridge, lei us have one on which two vehicles can pass,” he said. After quoting the benefits of the Grafton Bridge and the values it had put on the Grafton side of the city which, with the extra rates derived had more than paid for that bridge, he moved that tho council should support the harbour bridge propose:. ' and say that the time had now arrived , when the bridge scheme should be ’ pushed forward and not shelved.