THE NEW ORA WAITI BRIDGE

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 987, 16 July 1872, Page 2

THE NEW ORA WAITI BRIDGE

(To the Editor of the Westport 2V»ies,j Sin, — Will you kindly allow | corner in your correspondence colun fpr a few lines concerning the \ bridge with which, 1 understand, i the intention of the Government to place the present, tottering one o the Orawaiti river. I think now that Westport ia hj« ing a retreat into the bush uprj, ward, that it would be unwise as as very unfair to travellers to brii the river again in the same spot as present, as doing so would entail amount of very unnecessary and y unpleasant circular sailing to and ft town, which would be avoided if bridge were placed about a quartei a mile further' up the river—say posite Mrs Hall's. This and thiso being, I submit (with due deferens engineers and the professionally wl the only suitable site for it, and many obvious reasons. In the 8 place it will be in a direct line withl new township of Westport, or perls I should say directly opposite itadvantage which will commend it to everybody. Secondly, If ever black diamonds of Mouut Rochfort which we have heard so much andsi so little, should be permitted to 1 the sun, the tramway or railway 9 will convey them to the port will J bably pass hereabouts ; and lastly] is the safest place on which tTi? bn| could be placed, being brtT.'Sljd ] reach of any probable sea action, wlj the river being there broad and sluggf there need be no danger appreheuij from the heavy floods when the Bui contributes its overflow. Whether or not the cost of ci structing the bridge here, where 9 river is much wider, would much] ceed that of placing it on the ofiuj I am not prepared to say, but IM been told that the excess would of be trifling.—l am, &c,

Ichabod Bum;