THE WAIPUKU WASHOUT.—Floodwater from a nearby stream surged against the railway embankment on Friday morning and washed out a miniature canyon beneath the lines. Hundreds of Railway Department gangers have now thrown a temporary bridge across this and a similar gap further up the line, and the first trains passed through yesterday.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1935, Page 5
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52THE WAIPUKU WASHOUT.—Floodwater from a nearby stream surged against the railway embankment on Friday morning and washed out a miniature canyon beneath the lines. Hundreds of Railway Department gangers have now thrown a temporary bridge across this and a similar gap further up the line, and the first trains passed through yesterday. Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1935, Page 5
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