There is a sharp contrast between the old Kaiti bridge (above) and the one which is in existence today.
The first pile for the present day structure was officially driven by the then Mayor, George Wildish, on May 21, 1923, and the bridge was opened a couple of years later.
All images and text on this website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/).