THE AOTEA BRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 611, 20 April 1876, Page 2

THE AOTEA BRIDGE.

git,— For many ▼•**• P**b I bare noticed ia the advertising oolunuu of etch Saturday* iuuo of the yfklt.kto Tncw an announcement from the Newcaatle Highway Dutriot Board to tho effect that the Aotea Bridge ii unsafe for traffio, »nd that pasiengers crowing do to at their own riik. Now, air, I don't know what you charge for advertising, but, judging from ay own experience ia that way, I should unaßine that this inUrwtbg dalibtratite body will hat* M OMch to pay for that luxury at would dtfray tha ooat of putting tha bridge in decant repair. Perhapi they hare entered into a oontraefc engaging the tpaoe for a twelTemonth »t a reduced figure ! In any cm*, it wo*ld be a more aemibie proceeding if they called for tender* to put the bridge right «* «nea. They oartainly "do yon proud," «ir, wken they tay whoerer oroue* the bridga will do to at their own nik. m that would infer 'Hal yaur P*P«' " "^ V every man, woman, and child in tha dutnot There ia no other way of getting aorow the oreekshan by moana of the bridges and aa it la ob an angle of nearly 45 degreei, wnoem Tentur.l on it truly does ao at hia own w*. Seriouriy, iir, who would be rtipomibla m tfco case of a person fraoturing a limb or waerwiea injuring hinwelf on the itructure ? Oould not J. or any other pawon meeting with an acoidant there, e?en allar teeing the notice, olaimdamagea from tb« fiowdf II »ot, w§ «rt If ft at tbt

mtroy of th» negligent Road Board* and may at an* time bt aereflj injured without being able «o obtain tedreiu— Youri, Ac, Tmi.TM.tM. Whata Whata, April 18. „ . . « rW"e *r» not oompettnt to girt «n " opmion," bat ■hoald adTi«« our corrwpond»nt to oomuU hb lavrcr, and in tht meantime to atoer clear of th* bridge Mfwwd to.— Bd. W T.]