Untitled

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1921, Page 2

ON Thursdav a poll is to he taken ill the declared part of the County ot Westland on the loan proposals for building Kakajsitahi luidge. The loan | roposed is £1,50(1. and the bridge is to span the l.ittle Waitaha river to give connection between the main south load, and the line of the Bold Head road and Waitaha beach. 'I he particulars have been put very fully Indore the electors hv the County Councillors, and the decision of the matter now rests with the ratepayers concerned. The bridge is intended to allord a Very useful eonlioelion for northern trallie. A

private railway will soon tap the spot where the bridge lands on the north sitle of the river, and this c<>n. iifCtiou will he a ready means for transporting produce and stock north. Ihe bridge will lie of particular service to tin* (hiirv- farmers on Waitaba beach and locality, now supplying the Waitaha daily factory, and also of special use to stock drovers coining up to the northern markets. For sheep in lenticular the bridge is now imlispensihle. Eater, the bridge will give direct connection liv the Bold Head mute to the Mikonui, and will afford a shorter distance for traffic going north and south. The bridge should he the means of reducing transport charges on piodon' and goods and in this way will be a verv considerable saving to the si ttle.s

The loan is to have a currency of fifteen years, and the money may now he acquired at very reasonable terms. The proposal provides the opportunity i.f aequiring a < tuivenicNce long asked for and much desired, and the terms being so favourable and the rate so light, no doubt the issue will find favor with the voters on Thursday.

Tun completion of the lining • the Arthur's Bass tunnel last Saturday is a very important stage in the work. It marks a stage of great importanc" because it frees the tunnel practically to the electrical engineering stall' which is to carry out by contract the electrification of the tunnel. And more important still it. will free about eighty men from inside work to join tlu* band of workers outside the tunnel in carrying through tin* work of preparation for the two large station yards at both outlets of the funnel. Within the tunnel now the most* important, work for the Public Works Department hs the placing of the i oiierete arms or standards to carry the electrical lines and the laying of the rails to the railway gunge. Special rails are to be used for the purpose, and these are stored tn large supply with the necessary sleepers at the Healey end of the tunnel. The large gang of men hitherto engaged on the lining will not he required for inside work now, which will give more room for the other workers as well as less traffic to interrupt the other work

which may now proceed more rapidly. The way is thus open for the speeding up operations West 'Coasters are anxious to see put into effect, and it is to he hoped the Public Works Department will adopt such means to so hasten the more speedy completion of the final connection to link up the East un.l West Coasts.