Carterton Notes.
(From Our Own Correspondent). Monday, A bridge over a stream crossing Ihc Dalelicld road lias been condemned by the Board as unsafe, The bridge lias only been in existence for a period of ten years. Tho stringers arc ofmatiti and they arc quite rotten. The cause of their rotting so soon is (hat the planking was of while pine. One would have thought that tolara being very plentiful in this district ten ■ years back, tho Hoard would have had the structure creeled with the more durable timber. The stringers required are of 30 feel lengths, and to procure them now of tile thickness required will be a very expensive affair.
There are requisitions for road ami bridge repairs from all parts of the district just now, after the wet winter, but there are no available funds, except just for patching, with which settlers have to be content, unless they prefer to 1 specially rate themselves. The Board's overdraft; is now reduced to £Bl2, a lower figure than it has reached 'for. many a month.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4845, 8 October 1894, Page 2
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176Carterton Notes. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4845, 8 October 1894, Page 2
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