Sewerage - New Zealand - Auckland Region
Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board: Views of construciton of Orakei Sewerage Works
Date: 1910-1914
By: Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board
Reference: PAColl-6532
Description: View of Okahu Bay before the construction of Orakei Sewerage Works and two views of the construction of the tunnel between Okahu Bay and Hobson Bay. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-012554 to 012557 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Construction workers in a Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board sewerage tunnel, at Orak...
Date: [ca 1913]
From: Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board: Views of construciton of Orakei Sewerage Works
Reference: 1/4-012557-F
Description: Construction workers in a Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board sewerage tunnel between Okahu and Hobson Bays, at Orakei. Taken circa 1913, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
View of Orakei Bay, Auckland
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000773-G
Description: View of Orakei Bay (now known as Okahu Bay) looking west. In the immediate foreground are sewer pipes and the newly constructed sewer running along the beachfront at what is now Tamaki Drive. A lone house, 'Sudeley House' belonging to Thomas and Elizabeth Coates, can be seen in the distance on the summit of Hobson Point hill. Taken by William A Price ca 1910. The lone house on the Hobson Point hill belonged to settler Thomas Coates, see 'Opening up Orakei', New Zealand Herald, 5 September 1929. Other Titles - View of Oraki Bay, Auckland Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Orakei Bay. No 1795D William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches Processing information: The house on the summit of Hobson Point above Orakei Bay had been incorrectly identified as a named home 'Conspio House'. Record updated on 29 August 2017.
Construction workers in an Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board sewerage tunnel
Date: ca 1913
From: Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board: Views of construciton of Orakei Sewerage Works
Reference: 1/4-012556-F
Description: Constructions workers in a sewerage tunnel being built between Okahu Bay and Hobson bay, Auckland, as part of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board's sewerage scheme at Orakei. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1913. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative