CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editok or the 'Evening Mail.' Sik — Permit me through the medium of your journal to call the attention of the authorities to the daugerout state of the ford at the Wairoa liridge. Many of the boulders are as large as a man's body, and last, week seTeral horses fell iv the rirer. Yesterday ou returning from town, I>a3 just congratulating myself on having got through the river s.-ifely when, on account of the extraordinary strain upon the king bolt of my buggy the linch pin broke, the horse went away with the two fore wheels, and I
was pitched out head first on to the bank of the river. Had this occurred in the middle of the river and I had been pitched on to one of the boulders I might have been stunned and drowned whilst insensible. When some life has been lost I have no doubt they will find out if it is the duty of the Road Board or the Government to look after the fordway.—l am, &c, William Paintox. Wakefield, March 5, 1878.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 56, 6 March 1878, Page 2
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