was
laid
before
from the Colonial Secretary, the Board. Copies of these letters are attacked to these proceedings.
Referring to the letter from the Colonial Secretary, His Excellency the Governor wishes the Board to survey
the
Cause
report upon of a Bridge only erected last
Survey and
"
of the early decay
last year Mr Pope of the Surveyer General's was in attendance upon the Board, for the purpose of affording any information
live.
Office
that he could
removed
The Board had one of the planks from the platform of the Bridge,
and found on inspection that the dry rot
had commenced on
ad
well
ad
the girders
particularly
on the planking; this was
evident
on
inspecting.
the
under-side of
the platform, where the usual fungus accompanying dry rot had commenced on the planking generally.
and on the
upper or lower
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edge of the girders, according
sappy edge of the timber has been
doren, this edge being the_
turned up or down ;
one where the rot has invariably
However the board
immediate
danger
are
Commenced.
no
of opinion that is to be apprehended the girders,
regards
safe state
from this cause as
but the planking is not in a (from its thin seantting and partial decay)
and
requires
immediate attention.
The Board having taken into their consideration the construction of the platform, found the bearing between the girders to be
2 feet
t1 inches in the clear, and the planking above them about 2 inches thick, which they are of opinion
was much too
slight for such a purpose, particularly with seech wide intervals between the bearers. Added to this, the planking is Mhina fir
in
many
and
full of knots, which
cases stretch across the