THE WATER TABLES, GISBORNE.
TO THE KDITOR. Sib,—l have asked ymi on several occasions io call attention to the exceedingly bad state of repair in which a small bridge, over the water-table on the Gladstone Road, close to the Union Bank is kept. If I mistake not you have done so once, but unfortunately no notice has been taken, and the nuisance has not been abated. I may state that last evening I had occasion to cross the Gladstone at this particular place, and narrowly escaped breaking my ankle. I am, however, suffering from the very severe sprain I received, aud as soon I recover I intend to tiring anaction against the Council in order to make them pay for my medical attendant and medicine. It is is not very long since that I read of a Council who, under similar circumstances, were compelled to pay a very large sum by way of compensation for a broken limb. I trust that our Gisborne Council may see their way to at once remedy the evil complained of, in order that they may be saved the cost incumbent on a law suit. For the present I shall say adieu.—Yours, &c., RATF.rAYF.It,
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1266, 3 February 1883, Page 2
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199THE WATER TABLES, GISBORNE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1266, 3 February 1883, Page 2
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