Taruheru Footbridge.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 535, 22 November 1890, Page 2

Taruheru Footbridge.

[TO T IE EDITOB.j SiK,—With your permission allow me a few lines re footbridge. Although not an interested party, 1 cannot help but sympithise for those residents who have lately been deprived of that useful structure, tbo Taruhoru footbridge. Now, Sir, can you explain why all this delay; if it is not a legal structure, why not make it so at once ? Talk about shifting, why it’s madness; all that is required is for th” Borouzh to proclaim tho road wav (that has be»n wd ever since the bridge has been opened, through the recreation reserve, and which belongs to the ratepayers al readv) a public road ; it is already fenced, eravelled, and pl anted with shade trees. If an application were made to have it gazetted, I have no doubt it would be done ut once, without the delay of going through tbo usual forms, and it would not cost tho ratepayers a xhilhne. Just consider, Mr Editor, the folly of the tbiu?, to attempt to pull the bridge up, and shift it. Not one stick of the timber would be of use again, and what about all the money the Road Board and Borough Council havo expended in the beautiful shaded fortpatßa they have cohstrfieted to and from tho bridge. Has tbis all to be thrown - away ? I venture to say no. I believe it has been said that the bridge is in a bad place for vessels coming through I have it from good authority, from u Captain of a trading vessel, ono who is used to tho bridge, that it could not be in a better place, and who’ ever said it was in a bond of the rivor, must have a crooked eye, as it h«s a beautiful straight run each way. No, Sir, tbo bridge ns suiting all convenience could not be in a bettor si’nation. Talk about Hull Street, tho Whataupoko Road Board alone would have to spend a large amount of money, as at present th«*re are about 40 chains of bog and briars (which I knew that body will not be able to put right f<»r some years) to form and gravel, besides it is too near to the cart bridge. In conclusion, allow me to suggest that when the bridge is repaired, opplicatien b« made to tho Harbor Board for four of their con< reto blocks, and put one at each corner of the piles where vessels enter, and then I gu irantee we will have no more of this inconvenience.*-! am, &c, t Common &knai.