AMBITIOUS CONTRACT.
RAILWAY BRIDGE REPLACED. IN STORAIY AVEATHER. Per Press Association. TE AROHA, June 12. AA’orking continuously foi fifteen hours in stormy weather yesterday, two railway gangs under the supervision of Air Simmonds commenced and completed one of the most ambitious railway contracts yet undertaken bv the maintenance division, the demolition of 360 feet of the wooden railway bridge, forty years old, over the AA'tiihou River at Te Aroha, and the substitution of a modern steel girder structure.
Two mobile cranes capable of lifting over ten tons each wore used. Six 33 feet and six 23 feet girders and a similar number of sections of sleepers and rails were used in the construction of tlio new work.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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117AMBITIOUS CONTRACT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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