BRIDGE COLLAPSE CLOSES HIGHWAY
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 27. The highway between National Park and Ohakune was closed yesterday afternoon when the centre span of the 73ft. bridge crossing Waimarino stream, immediately south of Waikune prison camp, collapsed under the weight of a motor transporter bearing a heavy tractor. • It is thought that about a week will elapse before repairs have been effected and, meanwhile, only means of road access between the central and southern King Country is via the much longer Desert road-route. The tractor, the property of the Ministry of Works, was being conveyed from Ohakune to Salt Hut road above Chateau Tongariro. The equipment gently subsided with the bridge about 16ft. to the riverbed. The tractor moved forward and buckled the back of the cab but the driver and tractor operator, who was a passenger escaped injury.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 3
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140BRIDGE COLLAPSE CLOSES HIGHWAY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 3
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