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The Brisbane Courier
30 October 1896
MARYBOROUGH BRIDGE, OFFICIAL OPENING.
The official opening of the new bridge over the Mary River at Maryborough will take place at 4 p.m. to-day.
The Ministers for Works and Railways, the members of the Victoria Bridge Board, the Under Secretary for Works, and the Chief Engineer for Bridges, and a small party of members of Parliament will leave Brisbane for Maryborough by this morning’s’ train, returning by the mail train on Saturday. A dinner will be given to the visitors by the Maryborough Bridge Board at the Royal Hotel in the evening. It is expected that the Minister for Works will open the bridge officially in the unavoidable absence of his Excellency the Governor. The new bridge was built to replace the high level wooden structure which was destroyed by the flood of 1893. The new bridge is a composite structure of Portland