COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 113, 4 May 1908, Page 3

COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE.

SEBIOUS INUONVJENIEXUi TO TGTUTAWA SETi'LEUS. ) Mews was received at the Stratford s County Council oilice on Saturday inorn--1 ing, the Post reports, that- the cable • bridge across the Mangachu river at, Tututawa iiad collapsed wliile a mob cil cattle was being driven across. The animals were precipitated into the stream, but received comparatively slight injury, only one beast having 10 be destroyed. The Stratford County Council hail specially prohibited cattle being driven across the bridge in lota of more than live head at a time. If, as alleged, forty head fell into the stream, the pro- j hibition must have been disregarded. The loss of the bridge is a very serious matter for a large number of settlers in the Mangaehu and Pimcwliakau districts, many of whom can have no velncular communication until a permanent bridge which the Stratford I County Council has in mind is decided I upon and erected. The preliminary steps in this connection even, are bein.V hunup until the Parliamentary Estimates are passed, and it is ascertained what subsidy the Government will -ive an application for s „|, s id y |,. lvill „ i^. n \ vnt in and a -promise made thai the application will be considered when the next Estimates are being dealt will,