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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

dd

the

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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