TONGAPORUTU.
(Our Own Correspondent.) The contractor, Mr, Grayling, has 60,000 feet of timber at the bridge site. The scow Warrior, with Captain Williams in command, arrived from Kaiparaat the mouth of the river at 1 a.m on the 4th inst, sent the timber up the river in rafts and went to sea the same night. Theironbark will be landed by the e.s. Manukau. Mr. Dugdale is also fitting up his cutter for the bridge haulage. The river was higher after the downpour on the 10th than it has been for the laßt four yearsi: The Mimi, too, was very high, the' valley being a sheet of water, and Messrs. Murray and Eraser's places were almost submerged. ...The road was impassable, as it is'wise every flood. It wants saising ten feet to be us fut.. Thi Oliftoni County Council was to have doubled the rate this year to metal the road bet* but it, and so that body left the rate as before and resolved to put a toll-gate on the Waitara bridge. Let those who u»e the road pay for the metal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 219, 25 September 1901, Page 2
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182TONGAPORUTU. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 219, 25 September 1901, Page 2
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