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TO EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED RAILWAYS MINISTER GRATEFUL. TO ARMY & DEPARTMENTAL STAFF. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Giving details of earthquake damage to railways, the Minister of Railways (Mr Semple) today stated that the most serious interruption occurred between Masterton and Eketahuna. where one bridge was damaged. The Manawatu line, he said, had been restored within twelve hours of the quake and the line from Masterton to Wellington within nine hours. Mr Semple expressed his thanks to the Army authorities at Woodville for the services of sixty soldiers, who did very good work, enabling railwaymen to repair the track and bridges, and to the railwaymen themselves, some of whom worked for thirty hours continuously. Many hundreds of chimneys in railway houses and buildings were brought down or damaged and bricklayers commenced repairs the next morning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1942, Page 4
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