THORPE-BATON BRIDGE.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11994, 22 July 1907, Page 3

THORPE-BATON BRIDGE.

To the Editor. Sir,— The uauai s^ree to celebret the completion of a new bridge wil soon be held at Ihorpe. . I hope tha a large number will be presnt ti assist at the ohristening, and see fo themselves how the borrowed r^r,--is spent on reproductive vvo.ko Perhapa Sir Joseph Ward migh attend if ho is coaxed a little; n doubt the shook would be considei able, but then Sir Joseph can see f c himself tbat £1600 of money is spec to benefit just five settlers, who liv amongst a bunch of fern hills at th mouth of the Baton river. ,At th came time he might be informed the he could drive from the Motupib Railway to Motueka without bein able to give his horse a drink, evei stream being bridged. This Thorj bridge is supposed to be a benefit 1 the settlers who live at the Uppe Baton ; however, they find it muc nearer and more convenient to foi the "Wangapeka river, and get to tt

railway at Tapawera and do business that way. This means that this bridge should have been built at the Wangapeka ford. OUS *•*** Yours, etc, -**** BOLTER.