WORK ON STOP-BANK.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4761, 8 October 1924, Page 2

WORK ON STOP-BANK.

START AT RAILWAY BRIDGE. RUSTON DREDGE COMMISSIONED. Yesterday morning a start was made to move the Ruston drag-line dredge from near the Ngararahi Cut to a position- on the Paeroa side of the Ohinemuri River near the railway bridge, where a start is shortly to be made to build up and strengthen the existing tstop-bank and to close the gap near the bridge. The task of moving the dredge was accomplished yesterday without any mishap. The machine', weighing about seventy-five .tons, was lifted bodily on to a barge and towed from its former site to a point near the Junction, where it was unloaded on to the bank and reassembled. From the Junction it proceeded under its own steam along the stop-bank to its present site. By means of the caterpillar tractor wheels, with which the dredge is fitted, little difficulty was experienced in moving it. From the junction of the two rivers to the railway bridge is said to be the farthest distance yet travelled by the machine on land at one time, and it is the first occasion that the dredge has worked on the right bank of the Ohinemuri River. The undertaking was carried out bj’ the Public Works staff, and the dredge was in position ready to commence work, by five o’c’ock yesterday afternoon.