STOCK ON RAKAIA RAILWAY BRIDGE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 9

STOCK ON RAKAIA RAILWAY BRIDGE

TO ri(B EDITOR OK TUB P!:r.SS. Sir,--May I solicit the help of those interested, the railway, authorities, the Farmers' Union, the Sheep Owners' Union, and the Canterbury Automobile Association, to get the regulations about stock on the Rakaia railway bridge altered? My contention is that once stock is allowed on lo the bridge from, say, the north end, i)o traffic should be allowed on to the bridge at the south end till the stock is across. Apart from the many obvious advantages this regulation would bring. I would like to point out that the present method can be positively dangerous, it not actually lo life and limb, at least to property. Some years aao while taking a friend and her small child across the bridge on a very wet day, we met a mob of large.' horned steers. The decking of the bridge was very slippery, and after much forcing the steers made a blackguard rush pasl the car, slipping every way and smashing 'ihe running board and mudguard, to say nothing of terrifying the child and myself. Had the 'car been a "baby" model, they might easily have gone over the top of it. The two obvious advantages are: <i.) saving to stock and <ii.) saving (in the aggregate) of motorists' time. —Youi s, etc., GEORGE HENNES sY. Morven, March 5, 1935.