CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE AND PUNT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 629, 1 June 1876, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE AND PUNT.

M^Editob,— I have been expecting to see n letter from tome moro able penman among} our numerous readers of the Waicato Timks, sinco the Cambridge punt sunk. 1 think its quite lime ■ome one should bestir tbemielves and rouso up a drowsy Government, and urge tliem on to dutj and to action, and let us hare a bridge again. It* nearly six month* now since we lihto been without a bridge, imd almost without a punt ; certainly we have had a miserable uiK)loi»y for one, which is now lying u«ele-s under water, and it is doubtful if iti much use when its raised only to tink ngain with a living freight, perhaps in the middle of the rivtr, a> its a miseraHe rotten old wretch, when jou can piik it to pieces with, your finger*. No one con §ay when a ] link might not give way in the middle of th« river and sink almost instantly, and who can come to the lescue ? I *ay its better to let it lie there than to mnlio it au instrument to drown pouplc with. If we cannot get a bridpo let vi hate a pood punt, that wo may be able to crocs our cattle and horses with safety. Mr Editor, I am very torry we hnven't got a moro energetic spirit union? our Pukerimu settlers, who are tho principal sufferers through the loss of the bridge. We have been far too quiet about the matter : if we do not push tho matter in right good enrnobt we shall pink like the punt. — I am, <te, Settle u. Cambridge, May 29, 1876. [Since this letter was ii; type, tho tenders for tho construction of tho bridge have been called for.— El) W T.]