INCH CLUTHA BRIDGE.

Evening Star, Issue 3829, 2 June 1875, Page 2

INCH CLUTHA BRIDGE.

To the Editor.

Sir,-I observe in your issue of last night that it is proposed to spend L 3.500 on a bridge over the Clutha at Inch Olutha, This bridge can be of no public utility whatever, and can ?nly bti of service to a few landowners on the island. It may be a piece of successful wirepulling', but is certainly a most scandalous waste of public funds for the improving of a few private estates. Even with a toll-bar at this bridge it is questionable whether the revenue would pay the expenses of a tollkeeper. The island is easily accessible on all sides by water ; but if the lauded gentry them need a bridge let them pay for it themselves, ai was done on the jaieri, near the Relianoe Hotel, by a few Dunedin gentlemen who own a property there about half the size of the ClutlJk island. It is almost time that the system of improving private estates at the public expense should be checked; besides, the value of the lands in the Clutha district has already been increased nearly four-fold by the construction of the railway. “ Hoads, Bridges, and Reports” appear to have become a son, of mania in the oommunity. Easy internal communication is no doubt a very good thing, but external communication is almost as much needed ; otherwise what is to be done with produce when brought to a port unless markets are obtained lor it by the aid o r regular steam communicatkm —I am, &C., .fETTLEB. Dunedin, June