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Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18th January 1966 "Army engineers construct a bailey bridge over the te Awa-o-te Atua stream on the Pohangina East Road -- the scene of a bridge wash out in March 1965. The old wooden bridge in the foreground collapsed and was washed away by flood waters. A temporary, short, bailey bridge spanned the gap, but this was replaced yesterday with a new, but still temporary, bailey bridge."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

January 18, 1966

Digitisation ID

2018N_2017-20_MS000781

Format

B&W negative