HIGHWAY REOPENED
WHIROKINO SWAMP TRESTLE BRIDGE. ALL-WEATHER ROUTE PROVIDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ This Day. Built at a total cost of £83,000, including road approaches, the concrete trestle bridge over the Whirokino Swamp, south of Foxton, was opened by the Minister of Public Works, Die Hon R. Semple, the occasion being marked by an official gathering of local bodies and others. The trestle is the second longest concrete structure of its kind in the. Dominion, being of ninety spans, each forty feet, the longest of its type being the Rakaia River Bridge, Canterbury. The construction of the trestle provides an all-weather route on an important Wellington-Auckland highway. On numerous occasions in the past floods seriously interrupted traffic. Plans are under way for a new bridge over the river at the southern end of the trestle, replacing the old humpback bridge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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141HIGHWAY REOPENED Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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