PROPOSID BRIDGE AT THE NARROWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 728, 15 February 1877, Page 3

PROPOSID BRIDGE AT THE NARROWS.

.APTEEthe Bale at Ohaupo a-m'etingof r Settlers was beid; IM r S Steele m the chair, wjth the object of aspertaining.if means- < could not be taken for getting abridge thrown across itbe mer at the Narrows, about half way between Hamilton and •Cambridge. It- appears that Mr Brittan, 7 tfie con n>ctor for the C-.mbridge bridge,; /bus a considerable '.quantity of 'material available for Use, and the occsion'of hie being sti. lin the district was taken adVantage of to -.get on • estimate ; ma^e for fc ; the coc struction of a v bridge at this point, *'»where the river is only Borne'"'-63 feet ■ e cross, and the following gentlemen, were : appointed a committee k>. collect; Bubscrip-' ■tiona on thevwest side of the-river :~ , , nairely: Messis S Steele, H Buttle, * Fleming, Mandeno, and'Dr 'Waddington. j .It is to be hoped 'that a considerable portion of the amount leqnired may be 1 - nised m this manner, nnd -be- Sufficiently : Biipphmentel by the county councils of Wiika'o and Waipa to allow of the work carried nut. A bridge at this point would enable Fiatro,' Tamahere and * other settlers to get ..direct to • Ohaupo,' .and I hence to up-country- districts. Had * there bpen any tign - f the long- talked- pf 'bridge at. Hi*milt-.n being likely to be gone on with, the settlers n-n'^Jit haVe. 1 etn i.pßrfd the riPc-sMty of tlms". taxing); ■.themselves to provide this means of communication, ..,.-,