The Waihenga Bridge.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1807, 15 March 1886, Page 2

The Waihenga Bridge.

To the Editor of the Stand xni. Sib, —According to your report of the Ftatherston Hoad Board meeting there was a great discussion over the Waihenga to'l gate. I am not going to aay whether the toll ought to be taken off or left. I will leiv>‘ ll>e Board to be the heat judges. But the present state of the last span ut the bridge on the W’aihenga side is a disgrace to that body. Ths whole of the spans, except the above, war# lifted some twelve months after the bridge was built, but owing to ths heavy floods carrying away the staging and the who's of the river running under it, it was left. Than were several attempts made to lift it, but it was never dons. Some twelve months bsck the whole of the river bed nodes the span was high and dry, and I felt snrs that tb# Board would now lilt the spaa. It has, however, been neglected. It is a shams that a valuable and necessary piece ol work should be neglected for the sake of £3O to £BO, as the spaa might collapse some day when there is a heavy mob of oattls going over it. than it would coat £3OO to £BOO to put it up again, besides the inconvenience of having to cnee the river. Apologizing tor trespassing on your space. * lam, Ac., B. A. Wax* La, Sash and Door Factory, Orsytowu Barth,