GOOD WORK BY RAILWAY GANGS
BRIDGE DEMOLISHED AND ANOTHER ERECTED (United Press Association! TE AROHA, This Day. , Working continuously for fifteen hours in stormy weather yesterday two railway gangs under the supervision of Mr Simmonds commenced and completed one of the most ambitious railway contracts yet undertaken by the maintenance division, the demolition of a 360-feet wooden railway bridge forty years old over the Waihau river at Te Arohc, and the substition of a modern steel girder structure. Two mobile cranes capable of lifting over ten tons each were used. Six 33-feet and six 23-feet girders and a similar number of sections of sleepers and rails were used in construction of; the new work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 8
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