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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 9

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GUESTS AT CHATEAU. BRIDGE CARRIED AWAY. BEPI.ACEMENT BEGUN. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") THE CHATEAU, this day. Sixteen guests are marooned at the Chateau, National Park, as the result of the collapee of a large wooden bndge over the Whakapapanui River, a mile below the Chateau. The structure was washed fiway in a serious flood caused by a cloudburst on Mount Ruapehu yesterday. The guests will be ™rooned until a temporary bridge k built. Woik on the bridge wae commenced to-day by the Prison Department on the spot and when finished, wil permit of the passage of motor vehicles across the river. Repairs are expected to take two a Xhe bridge was washed away about 5 showed that the bridge had completely disappeared. The party drove 1-1 miles back and informed the superintendent of the Erua prison. Warders from the prison were immediately placed on guard at the turn-off to the Chateau from the main National Park-Tokaanu Road, and no traffic was allowed last night. As eoon as he was advised of the position, the manager of the hotel, Mr. Iv. Cobbe, arranged for a wire rope to be cast across the gorge so that mails and essential stores could be transported. He also sent a warning to Taumarunui, lc Kuiti, Ohakune and other towns in the King Country. . . It has been raining here since batuidav, and the guide, Mr. C. Taylor reports that enormous quantities of ice on the Whakapapa glacier, winch feeds the Whakapapanui River, have been melted. The weather has broken to-day. It is reported that another sinal.er brid-e on the main Tongariro-National Park Road, near the Wanganm River, is down.