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Over She Goes!
What was left of the old Reay Bridge over the Te Arai river on the way to Waingake made a spectacular series of pictures for the "Photo News" camera one morning last month, when the last of the two big trusses which carried the bridge was collapsed into the stream.
County workmen climb on front of truck to counter-balance heavy beam being lifted over side of new concrete structure which replaced old bridge.
Remaining truss was pulled over by winch and wire rope. In the first picture it is just '"starting to go". Within a couple of seconds it was reduced to a tangled mass of broken beams and twisted steel in the bed of the river.
"She's away!"
Well off the vertical
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