A CAUTION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir. —Will you be so kind as to put this letter in your paper, as it might be to the benefit of travellers to know that if they don’t want their neck broken they wont ride along Hawke’s road on a dark night, or they will tumble over a rail tied across a bridge. Whoever put it there ought to be made stop there and take it down for people to pass. It is not very pleasant to get thrown off your horse or out of your buggy on to the ground, but it is worse to get thrown on to a bridge or into a creek. I was riding along there myself on© night, and as I did not know there was a rail across the bridge my horse walked right up against it before I noticed it. If I had been riding hard I would have been thrown over the other side, and perhaps had my neck broken. I don’t suppose the owner of the rail would pay the doctor’s bill if anyone got hurt. Gates on the road are bad, but I think it is going a little too far when rails are tied across a bridge, which lakes you half an hour to unfasten and another five or ten minutes to drag away, to say nothing about putting it up again.—l am etc,, T. E. A, Winchester.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1901, 8 June 1889, Page 3
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236A CAUTION. Temuka Leader, Issue 1901, 8 June 1889, Page 3
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