WAIOHINE BRIDGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 31 December 1912, Page 5

WAIOHINE BRIDGE

RE-OPENED FOR LTGHT TRAFFIC CARTERTON, .Last Night. Tllis morning a meeting of the Wairarapa South and Featherston County Councils wag held afa. the Waiohine bridge, when a careful examination and; tests were made. It was decided to open the ;Kridg6 for light traffic from this evening, and to station a man nt each er.d t day and night, ,to sec that no ,heavy traffic uy?« the bridge.- All passengers will have t-d walk across the bridge, and cars and ,horse vehicles ltnist go at a. walking paes. Heavy traffic will either go through Matarawa ar across a very good fard a. few chains down the river. To r<?iacli this ford it is necessary to go through. the gat© by the old toll hoiifi? and enter the river at J the end of the line of willows, where ! a. good approach is to he completed by-J to-morrow night. The damage to flt'-ft" bridge has resulted from dry rot setting in, in a block of wtood called a "coorbel." r.Tlie timber for '-repairing the structure has been procured locally, ' and a? soon x as the necessary geaa* is on the sp6t- the, bridge will be closed for irepairs, which! it is- expected will only take a few'days.