LIGHT THAT FAILED

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6408, 30 October 1923, Page 4

LIGHT THAT FAILED

(To the Editor.) It Sir, —Please allow me peivmediub of your valuable paper to call the at tention of those concerned to the failure of the light on Saturday night from the middle of the bridge to opposite Mr Cox’s residence, Herriesville. This want of light on Saturday in this particular locality constituted

a very serious danger to the travelling public. As it was a serious accident was only very narrowly averted by the best of good luck. A rider on a restless horse, after waiting some little time to get a clear way across the bridge, attempted to cross, but when near the centre was jammed by an approaching motor car —the restive horse almost causing a smash.

On the town side of the bridge there was no light from Wood’s timber yard to the bridge. The absence of light is bad enough on any night but worse on a Saturday night when so many people are returning home from town. Of course, Sir, the biggest source of danger for a town and district with the population this has is the narrow out-of-date bridge.—l am, etc., SIAFETY.