ARMY TO BRIDGE CLARENCE
Two-Dav Job Near Hanmer Springs
The Army will build a 150 ft Bailey bridge over the Clarence river 20 miles north of Hanmer Springs next week-end. The work will be done at the request of the New Zealand Electricity Department. to enable it to carry equipment to a new power line. The work will be done in two days by No. 5 Independent Field Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Engineers, assisted bv No 3 troop of No. 6 Independent Field Souadron. Sixty-five men of all ranks will be on the job. The bridge will be of a type known as “triple single." It will cross the Clarence river above an old coach ford near where the Acheron river joins the Clarence.
The men will go in trucks to an Electricity Department camp near the site on Friday evening This operation will be carried out by the Royal New Zealand Army Se-vice Corps The bridge will be supplied by the Ministry of Works. It will be sent by rail to Culverden this week and taken the rest of the journey by trucks.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29518, 20 May 1961, Page 12
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