WAI-ITI BRIDGE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 301, 18 December 1872, Page 2

WAI-ITI BRIDGE.

To THE EDITOR OP THE NELSON EVENING MAIL. Sir — business called me the other day to Waimea West, and on my return I crossed the bridge at Spring Grove, and I wish to place on record my intense admiration of the magnificent approach that has been made to that structure. The engineer to whom it owes its existence must surely have looked upon Waimea West as that region to which is usually applied the adjective "infernal" as he appears to have taken for his motto, "Facilis dcscensus Averni" but, in fairness to those who have to cart heavy loads over the river, he should have remembered that the ascent has to be made quite aa frequently as the descent, and therefore that the almost perpendicular wall which must be surmounted in crossing from Waimea West to Spring Grove offers rather an obstruction than a facility to traffic. -Indeed, I question whether it would . not be far easier for a team to drag its load through the river than to haul it up to the floor of the bridge. I would have suggested that Mr Handyside's new invention should be first -put to the test at the hill which engineering art has so skilfully raised at this particular spot, but that it woula be scarcely fair to the inventor, as "one in six "is a fool to it. I am, &c, Gee-Up.