The PROPOSED BRIDGE OVER THE WAIKATO AT HUNTLY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1825, 18 March 1884, Page 2

The PROPOSED BRIDGE OVER THE WAIKATO AT HUNTLY.

As may be expected the question of erecting a tiaffic bridge over the Waikato liver at Huntly considerably monopolises the attention of the settlera of that rising district. The question of erecting this bridge ha-5 been before the public for some months past, but as yet the proposal has taken no definite shape, nor, present circumstances considered, is it likely to for somo time to come. In all projects such as this the whole affair resolves itself into one question, Where i-< the money to come from ? It is not simply a question as to whether the work is advisable, or is the biidge really requhed, or would it tend to forward the welfare of the district, for on these heads we think there can only be one yerdict. A suitable btructure to cross the Waikato at Huntly would cost at the very least about £15,000. It is suggested that the County Council borrow the money under the Roads a,nd Bridges Construction Aot, but that Aot doos not allow any county council to borrow more than £5000 in one year, and it is not likely that the ratepayers will allow the limit of a year's borrowing to be spent in erecting a bridge at Huntly. Certainly the Waikato Coal ard Shipping Company have offered to pay the interest on the amount ; but, other circumstances considered, this does not alter the aspect of the question. A bridge here would greatly tend to open up, and develop the resources of the Raglan county, and connect that district, through which a good road has already been laid out, with the Waikato railway. Perhaps ere long the im? pprfcance of such an undertaking will be the means of suggesting some other and better course, whereby the work may be undertaken. The Government has a lot of excellent land in the Raglan county in the vicinity, suitable for settlement, which would be immediately benefited by the proposed bridge, and we do not see why independent Government aid' should not be solicited and obtained.

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