Stillwater Bridge
Sir, —Mr Mark D. Sadler has been blaming the Minister of Mines for closing the Paparoa Mine. The Grey County Council is as much to blame. Councillors are obsessed by a death-trap bridge at Stillwater costing about $500,000, instead of repairing the flood-damaged existing bridge. They added another 20 miles to the cartage of coal from the mine. People in Blackball wanting to go a mile and half have to travel 50 miles one way and 50 miles back home—roughly 20 miles there and 20 miles to get back home for the sake of a white elephant at Stillwater. It has cost the Railways Department more in extra buses and shuttle service than would have repaired the daipaged bridge, which is in the most central part of the district. More dollars have been wasted on Back Road than would have built three new bridges.— Yours, etc., BY THE WAYSIDE. November 1, 1972.
[Mr J. M. Panckhurst, the Grey County Clerk, replies that the council’s policy is not to reply to anonymous correspondence.]
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 18
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