THE MANGA ONE CREEK BRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1261, 29 July 1880, Page 3

THE MANGA ONE CREEK BRIDGE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — At the general annual meeting of the Tamahere Road Board there was a discussion regarding the necessity of raising the bridge over the B|auga One Creek at Crawfords Gully, improving the approaches, and lowering the hill on the Tamahere side of the gully. Some of the members of the Board did not seem to think this an urgent matter. List Saturday two ladies drcve over the bridge and narrowly escaped an accident from the. state of the approach to the bridge on the Tamahere side of the gully. On the way back they had to take the horses out of the buggy, lead them over the hole in the approach, and harness them on the far side ; one of the ladies having to pull the buggy over the bridge. Our rates are Is in the £, and it is a little too much to have one of the principal roads of the diatriot in, this state. There are from ten to a dozen ratepayers who hare to use this road to get to Hamilton. With the present gradient on the Tamahere side of the gully, it is only possible to take half loads up the hill. This prevents us using thq railway as much as we should do had we a decent road to Hamilton. Except about three chains the road on the Cambridge side of the gully is fairly passable, but the approaches to the bridge on both sides are too narrow, and have never been properly formed. It is no use filling up with light sand, that washes away with every shower. If . plenty of fascines were used, and some clay mixed witli sand or gravel, and put on the top of the fascines, I .think it would set and form a good sound road. However, it is a pity to do much till the bridge is raised at least 6 feet above its present level. — I am, &c., J A 'Douglas. Bruntwood, near Cambridge, 26th July, 1880.

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