THE WAIPOUA BRIDGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10410, 2 September 1911, Page 5

THE WAIPOUA BRIDGE

-AND THE TRUST LANDS TRUST.

A SERIOUS POSITION

At .the instance of JEEi-s Worship the JMiayor, tbe members of'the Mist :r----ton Trust Land's Trust yesi > lay made an inspection of the. new tri 'ge "iwthadh crosses tihe Waipoua river at (the northern emd of Queen Street. / Tbe Trustees were surprised to f'nd ■ttihlat tbe when ■would be several'feet abo /e the level of the road, and would abut on the -frontage of one of the Txusf properties. .

After the visit of 'nspe ~.ion had bee® miada a sipecial meeting of the Trustees wasj held, at which there were prasea*t Messrs E. G Eton, •(dhlainnian), R. Krabagen, W. H. •Jackson, J. H. Panting, T. .Wagg, 'T. B. Mdiriball and C. ID. ?),imeil. The chairman tated that the Ttus"itees -wiere indebted to the May?r for (having drawn their attention t'j tho positkxn of the new bridge. He ccn- ■ Bidered it the duty of ■'he Trust to -enter am (immediate and' • emuhatic "protest against the pa«itio.i of the (bridge, "which wtas out of alignment "with, (the street, and would encvoaoh upon the frontage of a Trust, pro_perty.

iMr C. E. Daniell th'ougtt a .sharp ;protest (should be entered. The-bridge wtais "ttihree or four feet above the (naadwlay and surrounding properties, "was out of alignment with the ls-ain dft*oroug(hfare, and out oT a pi rtioii of itihe- frontage of the Trust scc"(tion.

Mr j. H. Pauling said thv Borough "domical wias not altogether tniunclcsS 'in ttihie mlatfcer. The late EngTiee * batl knowls Wibat was likely to happen. " Thte public bad never dreamt that the bridge wtas going in its present posi-1 tLom. • •,. ; ■ I The idbairroan said the County 'Oouncdl, which was aarryir.g op the Triark, did not consider Borough] in-thie matter. * Alter some further disoussnn, the 'folbwikig resolution, proposed by MiMichlefi, and' seconded by Mr Pauling, waa , unanimously carried:— . * 'Thiarb this .Trusit notifies tbe' Boroitigh .Cbumcil sjnd the County Council ' tbat thie Truat iprotests viery strongly lagainffu the- objectionable: coridtruafcion of the southern, end of the rbowin bridge, firstly in thlat the street as rtaised several feet above its forimeir level, and secondly in, tna-t a portion of thie Trust land is fenced off from access to the street, aad . tiblat tht'o Tru®t inifaendis to protect, its interests by legal process.'''