Schedule 1 The Agreement

Schedule 1 The Agreement

sch 1, hdg: Subst 1983 No 118, Sch 1 (3).

AGREEMENT made the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, between the Honourable Sir George Warburton Fuller, K.C.M.G., Premier of the State of New South Wales, for and on behalf of that State of the one part, and the Honourable Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, M.L.A., Premier of the State of Victoria, for and on behalf of that State of the other part, whereby it is agreed as follows:

Two Engineers, one of whom shall be appointed by the Government of New South Wales and one by the Victorian Government, shall recommend the sites of two bridges to be constructed between a point 3 miles upstream from Mildura Wharf and downstream to a point near the Wentworth Township.

The Engineers shall submit the designs of the bridges and approaches within the limits of the flood area, and suggest the materials of which they are to be constructed.

Should the Engineers disagree upon the matters referred to, the questions in dispute shall be referred to arbitration in accordance with clause 50 hereof.

Such bridges and approaches, their locations and designs, shall be approved by the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria.

The bridges to be so constructed that they will provide for road traffic, and also railway traffic for both the 4 ft. 8½ in. and 5 ft. 3 in. gauges, and not offer any impediment to the navigation of the Murray River.

The Constructing Authority for the bridges and approaches shall be determined by the two Governments on the receipt of the report of the Engineers.

The construction of both bridges and their approaches to be entered upon within one year after the ratification of this Agreement, and to be completed within three years of the date of such ratification.

The cost of such bridges and approaches within the limits of the flood waters, whether for road or railway purposes, shall be borne in equal proportion by the Governments of Victoria and New South Wales.