THE REEFTON AND GREYMOUTH BRIDGE.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 29 April 1881, Page 2

THE REEFTON AND GREYMOUTH BRIDGE.

♦ [to the editor in angahua times.] Sib,— ln reference to the above public work, can you inform me through your colnmns why the contractors are stop* ped io completing same. Casaally, I have heard that there is some diff -rence between the Government, and the owner of a piece of land abujtting on the work. Surely, seeing that <he winter is fast approaching, such a trifling matter should not be allowed to keep the main road between JS T elson and Greymouih locked up for an expenditure of say fifty or sixty pounds. It is only reasonable to suppose that the contractors being knocked off will claim compensation for delay. Therefore, it is self-evident that the saving of fifty or sixty pounds may result in the loss of double the amount, untass there be a larger share of philanthropy in this contractor than any one of iheir confreres. My reason for asking a solution of the difficulty is simply that I, and others, whose business leads us across the river daily, will be deprived of our living fcr months during the winter, unless the bridge be thrown open for traffic.— l am, sir, & ;., House and Dbay; Reeffon, 28ih April, 1881.