A BRIDGE AT THE OTIRA.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 January 1901, Page 3

A BRIDGE AT THE OTIRA.

I Mr T. S. Weston, at one lime District! lJudge of Westland writing to the Lyttelton Times says:—A largo number of passengers of whom I was one, travelling

.ifrom Hokitika to Christchurch by coac! Iwcre on Tuesday last, detained tbroug jtho flooded condition of the Otira Eivei IThere were several ladies, who in commo: iwitli passengers of my own sex, ma yaavc been ssriously inconvenience jby the delay and the d:scom ieomfort that was experienced upon tb loccasion. With our cspcriencs I wil jnot trouble you ; they were as comical a 'they were disagreeable. There was i [concensus of opinion among the pas jsengers and others that a foot bridgi (across the 0.-ira would very frequent!; [prevent the detention of mails and par 'Mongers. The bridge should no entail a large expenditure, and ecr vainly it would indirectly, if not direct 1; prove a remunerative work. T!u attention of the Government ha: been more than once called to tin matter, but as yet nothing has beer lyne. The Waimakarri at the Coaly is frequently fordable when the Otiri is not. A.s that was the case I believe on Tueslay, with a footbridSc over the Otiri the passengers and mails by the coach could have reached here on Wednesday at fi 33 a.ni., instead of this morning (Friday) aten o’clock. J fec i sure that you wil l ventilate this, to my mind, most important public matter. I should like, if 1 may. to bear testimony to the excellence of Mr Cassidy’s teams and coaches, te tire care and civility of his drivers, and to their udited desire to make the tho journey over the mountains pleasant to th. passengers.