STOCK CROSSING TRAFFIC BRIDGE.
Sir, —Last Tuesday at 9.30 a.m. I saw a mob of cattle crossing from the west end of bridge. When halfway over they were met by a oar and a market garden waggon, causing a block, which gave the stockman some trouble to get his stock moving again. What are the two traffic men for, if not to prevent this trouble. I have seen this happen on many occasions. There is a by-law regulating the number of stock on the bridge at one time. Sometimes mobs up to eight head are allowed on at onoe. There is nothing so trying to a bridge as a mob of cattle trotting across. That was the oause of the bridge collapsing at Ngaruawahia some years ago. I understand if drovers like to take the number of any offending car and send it to the traffic inspector, Hamilton, he will prosecute the owner of car. Drovers get busy and help yourselves.—l am, etc., OLD STOCKMAN. Hamilton, June 28, 1938.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18985, 30 June 1933, Page 7
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