REMOVAL OF A BRIDGE
After almost 30 years, during which it has served intermittently for railway traffic and for emergency use by settlers, the Bushmere railway bridge over the Waipaoa River, west of Gisborne, is being dismantled, and the girders removed for use in the Esk Valley, states the Gisborne "Herald." Though the bridge has been little used since it was erected during the last war as part of the Ngatapa line, it has been a valuable reserve asset to the district, as floods do not reach the decking, and it has at times been used when the main highway bridge at Matawhero has been endangered by floods.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 129, 2 June 1945, Page 8
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108REMOVAL OF A BRIDGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 129, 2 June 1945, Page 8
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