CLOSING OF BRIGHTWATER BRIDGE
THE action of the Waimea County Council in closing the Wairna Bridge nt. Brightwater is most serious for the district, but it is a step that only madmen would fail to take. The Council is morally responsible for tho safety ot the travelling public, and to have allowed people to risk their lives simply because great inconvenience would be caused, would have been criminal folly. U is also satisfactory to note that the Council is going straight out for a new concrete bridge. The cost is* a little heavy now, blit it means the saving of tho money that would otherwise be spent on repairs, which could only he of a very temporary nature. What the public does expect, however, is that the work will he pushed on without delay. Doubtless there will he a good many vexatious formalities to go through, hut every effort should ho made by tile Council, the Highways Board, and the Government Department eon corned, to go ahead at full speed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19250508.2.26
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 8 May 1925, Page 4
Word Count
170CLOSING OF BRIGHTWATER BRIDGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 8 May 1925, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in