The Public- Works Department has let the contract for the construction of the new Waimakariri Diver bridge at a cost of £18.857, the successful tenderer being 0. F. Drury and Co., Ltd. As the contract price indicates, the bridge is a large structure, of a total length of 11(50 feet. Its site is haW a mile lielow the present White’s bridge, three miles from- Kaiapoi and seven miles from Christchurch. There are to be twenty-nine spans, each of forty leet. and the work is to he carried out in reinforced concrete piles and piers, with rolled-steel joist beams carrying a twenty-feet- roadway. The decking is to he of concrete, with a two-inch bitumen pavement. Most of the piles will he sunk twenty-five feet- below the river-bed. The piers will stand eighteen feet above water level.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 1
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