Queanbeyan Age (NSW : 1867 - 1904), Saturday 28 September 1901, page 2


URIARRA BRIDGE OPENING. The ceremony, of publicly opening the bridge at Uriarra over the Murrumbidgee River will be performed on Saturday next, October 5th. The bridge is of course now in actual use, but it was thought advisable to have a public demonstration of joy over the successful achievement of such a valuable means of egress and ingress for Uriarra. The bridge will be declared open at 11 a.m. on the day mentioned by the *Hon. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, and the ribbon will be out by Mrs McDonald, of Uriarra House. There is sure to be. a huge gathering of residents from the surrounding ceuntry, and a number of townsfolk will also be present.