THOSE DREADFUL APPROACHES.
TO THE EDITOR. oik, — It is simply absurd aud disgusting to see day by day the waste of money that is going on at the bridge. A person would think that ii was the first and only embankment ever put up in the district, so much fuss is being made about it. I wonder if any of those about ever saw an earth bank before. As for preventing the bank from breaking away, the remedy is po simple that I suppose it is despised by those great amateur engineers — Messrs Vialou, Jones, and Co. — who supervise the w®rks daily from the elevated seat in the " one-horse shay." Why, sir, if they would only get a lot of good " fern (common enough is it not ?) and build up good walls against the bank, as all our redoubts were built in the " good old days," I guarantee that it will stand for ever. I wish I had "a contraot to keop it up and in good repair for a couple of years' at a decent figure. Why not let such a contract ? It would be better than allowing a lot of ignorami to practice their ideas on earthworks at the cost of a too-confiding public— l am, &c, Pbactical.
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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1258, 22 July 1880, Page 3
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210THOSE DREADFUL APPROACHES. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1258, 22 July 1880, Page 3
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