The poll for the proposed loan for bridge over the Mangahao river ai Sinclair’s has been lost and settlers can now reconcile themselves to a further period of inconvenii bco and danger. We cannot understand the shortsightedness which prompted a section of the settlers to obstain from voting and thus cause the defeat of the loan proposal. The proposed bridge " onld have been the only one across a dungeons rivei , IK) l'Hting them from then market town aud natural centre ; ud the contemplated rate would have be.n so utterly insignificant that one innot imagine any person taking it nto account. The proposal has been -efcated, and we are sorry for it.
But we would advise the settlers not to let the matter drop, evon now. The Government has promised a grant in aid and no effort should bo spared to retain this. At as oarly a date as posaiblea nother poll should be taken and more strenuous efforts made to avert defeat. The bridge is urgently needed, and unless it is carried to completion at an early dam the loss will recoil on the heads of the settlers themselves.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 103, 26 January 1894, Page 2
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