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Description

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
Captions read:

“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, near Stoney Creek Road, after heavy rain had swollen the stream and caused a washout.”

“Ministry of Works employees busy at work erecting a bailey bridge over the old bridge.”

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
2022-38
Date
September 1960
Digitisation id
2022N_2022-38_P289_039459_006
Format
B&W negative
Held In
"Coolstore"

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bridge washout,
floods,
ministry of works,
whakarongo,
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