NEW STOCK OUTLET URGED
MATAWHERO CONGESTION OLD PATLtAHI RAILWAY In order to relieve congestion of stock at the Waipaoa bridge, Mnlawhero, a. suggestion was made at to-day’s meeting of the Cook County Council that use should be made of the’ old Palulahi railwav bridge. Cr. M. T. B. Hall, who put forward the proposal, said that a. congestion of stock frequently occurred at lit** Waipaoa bridge, especially on ewe and cat tie fair days.
He urged that an estimate should be secured of the cost of decking the old Palulahi railway bridge for stock traffic and that tile old railway approaches, to the bridge should lie used as a slock route.
The Railway Department, be added, once offered the bridge to Hie council, presumably for removal, but the department was asked to leave the bridge whore it. was in (lie meantime. It. was agreed to ask for an estimate as suggest ed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19227, 20 January 1937, Page 6
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