DANGEROUS BRIDGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 11

DANGEROUS BRIDGE.

DEVIATION PROBABLE. SURVEY NEAR WOODVILLE. Motorists using the main highway from Palmerston North through the : Manawatu Gorge, via Woodville, are familiar with a particularly dangerous bridge on a sharp bend, about half-way between Woodville and the Gorge, and in the vicinity of the old Woodville cemetery. The Manawatu Automobile Association recently decided to comi municate with the Hawke’s Bay Association, in whose territory the bridge |is situated, suggesting that the Hig'hI ways Board be approached to take action in effecting an improvement. ! .The Manawatu Association was adi vised last .evening that the Hawke’s Bay Association bad received intimation that a Highways Board engineer j had been instructed to furnish a report and estimate on arranging a deviation and constructing a new bridge ! Mr M. A. Eliott, who characterised the point as being one of the worst .in Now Zealand suggested that support be accorded Hawke’s Bay by making similar overtures to the Higli- | ways Board. “It is a very satisfactory position, he added in regard to the advice received. le suJgestJon deCi<3ed to adopt Mr Eliott’s