EAST COAST RAILWAY.
TAURANGA HARBOR BRIDGE.
During the . past few months gopd progress has teen made by the Public Works Department with the work of constructing ahd placing m position me concrete, cylinders of the railway bridge across Tauranga harbor. A satisfactory foundation for the cylinders was secured all the way across the harbor. Work associated with the thirteenth pair of cylinders is now m hand, when- this set is completed there will only be two more pairs of cylinders to drive. -The steel work for the super-structure of the bridge is being prepared at the Mount workshop, and satisfactory .progress is being made. The construction of this bridge ifc -one of the largest works of the kind' that has so far been attempted m New Zealand.
The, work of rebuilding tho Hairini bridge, tfie longest bridge m Tauranga County and a very important link m the East Coast main road, is also to be carried out by the Public Works Department. The old structure will have to do service until the new ferro-concrete bridge has been built.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 3
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178EAST COAST RAILWAY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 3
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