MASON BRIDGE
Sir, —Before thi correspondence closes I would like to bring to the notice of the Main Highways Board what the employees of the Amur! County Council have to put up with on account of the Mason river. In all weathers, all the year round, in unprotected bulldozers, often in extreme cold, they have to make fords to enable the service car to run, and during the winter it is nothing to encounter snow on the road, a depth of two feet being a normal fall in these parts. Also Post and Telegraph linesmen have an unenviable job in winter keeping important Government lines open, and when the river ii» impassable they have -o get on as best they can to the source of trouble, generally at the Whalesback saddle. Surely these , Reserve consideration, and are entitled to a bridge, even if the dwellers on this main highway are not.— Yours, etc..
, INLAND ROOTER. July 22. 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25243, 23 July 1947, Page 5
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