The Nelson Bridge Disaster.
WHOLESALE CENSUBE BY THE* i COBONBB|S{ fjqRY,
- . ('UNITED PEESa_JLSBOCIATION-J ;■: •; . .. Nklsojt, Monday. The inquest on the Nife-streeVbridgiß disaster concluded tb.ss evening. . A num." ..' b'er'ofek'pertfl were called, including Mr VGlimie, C.E., and Mr Lightfoot, the Pi^yA .Surveyor, and designer of the bridge, • gave. evidence to r day.., After a retirement of an honr ana a haff" the jury reWme'd lJ a i veraict- t 'That th« death." o|jl i^illiam Hollyman was caused by m." juries- jeeeivedVaJfrthef all pf a .por|ion of the new bridge m course of consfif ucti'oi Which, m our opitiionris attributable :to faulty design and .constraction by the oity suryeyor and his foreman, combined with bad, wo_rjcmanßhip, ;'to which yve add the folio wjng^nder .^»? We con. aider the, Ootibiil arj^olanieiin Causing a work of this unusaarcharaoter to b« undertaken without first subuiftting the ,plans and specifications to a ; competent engineer and for not appointing a skilled .inspector \ over £^c tWie^rejafeojof jopinion that,,the conduct of the' Witnesses ;J. H. Harris and tAwrerice'AkeSrsten ii jhighly reprehensible for not warning; the jworkm'eri4irider the aroh. of the doriger m. which they were.'" *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1648, 2 March 1886, Page 2
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183The Nelson Bridge Disaster. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1648, 2 March 1886, Page 2
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