The Town Bridge.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11636, 14 August 1905, Page 6

The Town Bridge.

TO THE EDITOB.

Sir, — If they go the right wny td work there will not be any occasion to raise the bridge. It is like" a man letting rubbish accumulate round his house. Instead of clearing the rubbish away, he shifts the house away. If you construct a groyne on the Taylorville side, that would draw the current, cause a scour, and throw the silt,io the town side; but if you anchor all the boats on the- other side and dredge out a block of saiid- at the top end, and construct a wall there, this will draw the current, and eyery ilood will take away a slice of the sand. Then the cyinders of the bridge should be encouraged to silt up to its old level." The water right from the sea affects the ivater at the bridge. I can only compare the river to a long rope. If you had a rope that would reach from the bridge to the sea, and you wanted to drag all the rope to the sea beach, you would find that the faster you pulled on the beach end, the faster the bridge end would follow. It is easier to pull two miles of rape ,tlian .three miles. So you mustdeepen- the fiver, and shorten it. The river is too long, too crooked, has too much silt, and receives too much salt water. — I am, etc.,

G. H. WATSON.