The Wanganui Bridge.
The arrangements for this afternoon's ceremony m Wa ganui (says the Chronicle) m celebration of a free bridge are complete, and nothing but fine -• weather is needed to secure success. The Wanganui Rifles Band will play, and a guard of Volunteers will turn out by special permit from Major Stapp. Speeches will be 'delivered b? the Mayor, Mr Watt, Mr Ballance, Mr Poison, Mr John Morgan, and other gentlemen, the gates will be flung wide open, and town and country alike will be asked to think of the tolls merely as an incubus which m all probability will never return. The ceremony was to begin about 3 o'clock.'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 April 1883, Page 2
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111The Wanganui Bridge. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 April 1883, Page 2
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