Historical information
Newspaper clipping documents deputations to the Minister of Public Works for grants to be made available for repairs to bridges and roads damaged by heavy flooding in 1933, in particular, the replacement of a stone and concrete bridge over the Leigh River at Garibaldi in the Buninyong Shire.
The concrete slabs were still in the water in the 1960s/70s or even later.
Physical description
Three black and white photographs showing flood damage to the bridge over the Leigh River at Garibaldi, plus a photocopy of a newspaper clipping from The Argus December 1933 describing the extent of the flood damage.
.1) shows blue stone buttress and collapsed bridge/road.
.2) mirror image of above
.3) unknown man waling an a girder of the Garibaldi bridge
.4) photocopy of newspaper clipping about flood damage from The Argus December 1933
Inscriptions & markings
Damage by Floods: Bridges washed away (The Argus December 1933)
