Lower Gorge Bridge.
Tbe residents of Ashurst are naturally anxious to have the Lower Gorge bridge reinstated. The work is one which should no doubt be carried out. The Ashurst people are apparently ot the opinion that Government should bear the whole cost of the work. It is just as well to inform them at once that if they depend upon Government to bear the wbole cost, there is little hope of the work being carried ont at all. The member for the district, Mr F. Pirani, as is well known to most of the Ashurst people, has sounded the Government •opon the subject, and has become convinced that unless those bodies interested take a share of the liability it is useless agitating further in the matter. The question, as we have stated, is, who is to pay the piper ? And until those interested realise that they will bave to bear a share of the cost (the Government having impressed that upon Mr Pirani when interviewed on the subject) there is no iiklihood of this means of communication with the other side of the range being put into a proper state for use.— Standard.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 70, 19 September 1895, Page 3
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194Lower Gorge Bridge. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 70, 19 September 1895, Page 3
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