KARAPOTI BRIDGE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 12

KARAPOTI BRIDGE

j , miles up the main Akatarawa road a branch road leads up the valley of the Little Akatarawa (tributary of the Akatarawa) passing through Karapoti (the old site of Messrs. Campbell's sawmill) and ending at Hukinga (new site of the sawmill). Between Karapoti and the main Akatarawa road a bridge over the Little Akatarawa was- carried away 'by. a flood two or three /ears ago, and a low level bridge was constructed near by as a temporary measure. "One Lorry' Driver" writes stating that, in common with many! lorries and one ambulance vehicle, he has' come to grief at this. low level bridge, which is sometimes below water level. | He worked in water till 11 p.m. to save his lorry and load, and' he wishes to know when the new bridge (for which "money was voted") will, be ' built. The Little Akatarawa Valley above this bridge is owned by the Water Board, but there are one or two Hutt County ratepayers, and the valley contains one of the best stocks of firewood and posts (dead timber) available; but, he adds, unless the bridge is erected to let the wood come out satisfactorily, a good many firewooders and others may have to register as unernploved. Messrs. Campbell are milling standing timber at Hukinga on rights under the Water Board, and their timber has to come over this road." . The correspondent gives credit to Messrs. Campbell for what they have done to keep the road open, and states that a bad accident ease had to be carried from the bush three miles to the ambulance,* instead of the ambulance going to the accident.