Bridge to nowhere

On my way home from Palmerston North, I stopped at the old Opiki suspension bridge. Here's the history: It was built in 1918 to serve the local flax industry, which had three mills around the bridge (one of the chimneys can still be seen on the southern bank of the river). Only three years later disease struck and destroyed the industry. In 1925 a local farmer bought the bridge and it became a privately owned toll bridge, until 1969! In 1969 a new road bridge was opened, and the steel and timber deck structure was dismantled.