BLOWING UP BRIDGE
(New Zealand Press Association)
NAPIER, September 10. The 63-year-old wooden Mohaka bridge on the Napier-Taupo road will be blown up by Ministry of Works engineers tomorrow morning. The 400-ft bridge—replaced by the new highlevel bridge opened late last year—has been condemned to a spectacular end.
A demolition team plans to detonate explosives at each end of the bridge and let the huge wooden structure plunge 40 feet to the riverbed below.
Mr J. B. 8. Hulzlng, district materials and design engineer, said today: “The old bridge has been a constant source of worry lor a long time, and it's costing money to keep it there. “So it has been decided that it has to go, and blowing It up seems to be the quickest and cheapest way of getting rid of IL”
The old bridge—one of the best known in Hawke’s Bay—was one of the first to span the Mohaka. It was built in 1899-1900.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30233, 11 September 1963, Page 16
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