Oroua Bridge
Owing to the rising of the Oroua Eiver from the melting of the snow on the ranges, the Taonui people have lately been put to considerable inconvenience from the difficulty of crossing drayx and horses at the ford below the railway bridge. The want of a bridge suitable for dray and other traffic is here daily becoming more urgent. Our Feilding business people are more interested than they appear to imagine, for a large amount of trade which ought properly be done in this township, is directed to Palmerston. The erection of a bridge would be of great assistance to the settlers as the roads, which are now in a wretched condition, would have the whole of the rates now collected spent on them in keeping them in repair instead of such rates going tor other purposes. We believe that if some pressure was brought to bear on the Manchester and Manawatu Road Boards that, action would be taken which would lead to some definite steps being taken to have the work done under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 29, 21 August 1884, Page 2
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182Oroua Bridge Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 29, 21 August 1884, Page 2
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