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Tractor working on a state housing building site in Christchurch
Date: ca 1950
From: Tourist and Publicity
Reference: 1/1-007818-F
Description: Caterpillar D8 tractor and Le Tourneau 12 yd carryall working on a state housing building site in Christchurch. Photograph taken circa 1950s by an unidentified photographer for the National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Diversion at the Roxburgh hydroelectric station - Photograph taken by Jack Debnam Stewa...
Date: [ca 16 Oct 1950]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980
Reference: PAColl-8602-12
Description: Diversion at the Roxburgh hydroelectric station, in 1950. Shows a channel being gouged out to take the Molyneux River while the dam is made. Photograph taken circa 16 October 1950 by Jack Debnam Stewart Roberts. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 20 December 1950 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - Progess on the diversion cut at the Roxburgh hydro works Tons of explosives have gouged out this channel to take the Molyneux River whilst the 200' dam is erected. To reach the final depth, only 6 feet "trimming lifts" have to be removed. J D S Roberts Cromwell 16 10 50 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.4 x 15.6 cm
Roadworks, Waipawa
Date: 1958
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: 1/2-102207-F
Description: Reinforcing the roadway at Waiapawa, Hawke's Bay, at the northern approach of the new river bridge for road traffic, 1958. Looks along a road in the township, showing a road roller. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :What the hell Bruce. We lose a few old pillars but we g...
Date: 1982
From: Various artists :[Collection of cartoon clippings, of works by Eric Heath, Nevile Lodge, Gordon Minhinnick, Neville Colvin, Les Gibbard. 1950-1980s].
By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; National Business Review Ltd
Reference: A-311-4-022
Description: The bulldozers building the hydro-electric Clyde dam on the Clutha River are knocking over the temple pillars of 'The Law'. Bruce Beetham's Social Credit Party supported Robert Muldoon's National government in the passing of special 'fast track' legislation which overrode the existing legal protection of land owners, so that the Clyde dam could be built. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 160 x 220 mm.
GOVT. Auckland Airport shares. 5 March, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0005794
Description: Shows the word 'GOVT' but the 'V' has dropped out of the word and is about to pierce an aeroplane below which represents 'Auckland Airport shares'. Refers to the long-lasting struggle over whether Auckland Airport shares should be sold to a Canadian pension fund. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, J.A. active ca 1923: [Reticulation information of townships within the Kapiti Co...
Date: ca 1923
By: Smith, J A, active 1923?
Reference: MapColl-832.43genc/[ca.1923]/Acc.27186
Description: Eight (8) maps drawn on base diazo maps of Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua townships, showing electricity reticulation information. Some maps contain two maps, as noted. The maps are: 1 - Tokomaru Township reticulation; 2 - Manawatu Foxton Heads reticulation; 4 - Ōhau Township reticulation [and] Manakau reticulation; 5 - Waimeha Township reticulation [and] Waikanae Township; 6 - Paraparaumu Beach [and] Tasman Beach Ōtaki. 7 - Paraparaumu Township reticulation; [8 & 9] - Raumati Beach S.D. [and] Renown and Kawatiri beaches with extensions, reticulation (on same sheet); 10 - Paekākāriki Township. Each map has annotated information drawn on a diazo print that shows township layouts with numbered sections and roads. Maps have annotated drawings showing reticulation work being linked up between the road and the individual sections. Many of the sections include an annotated owner's name, a number, or both. Several of the maps list the owner's names and associated section numbers alongside the map. The bound maps cover acts as a title page, and lists ten named maps, numbered 1-10. Note map no. 3 Waitarere & Hokio Beaches, is missing. Map no. 8 and 9 (Raumati Beach A & B and Renown & Kawatiri Beaches) are on the same (unnumbered) map. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C E Bunice Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) bound together. Physical Description: Cardboard spine held with metal clips, holding 8 diazo and ink prints on dressed linen, part coloured, with paper cover, scales differ, 50.5 x 68.3 cm.
Road construction, Waipawa, Hawke's Bay
Date: 1958
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: 1/2-102205-F
Description: Road construction, Waipawa, Hawke's Bay. Shell petrol station on left. Photograph taken in 1958 for the New Zealand Free Lance, by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Possibly published in New Zealand Free Lance, 7/11/1958. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Road at Akatarawa, and road construction workers
Date: [ca 1908-1910]
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/1-019993-G
Description: Road at Akatarawa, and road construction workers with shovels. Photograph taken circa 1908-1910 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Boating club members, Wellington Harbour, with public works site on the shore behind
Date: 1974
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/4-021844-F
Description: Boating club members (Star Boating Club?) rowing on Wellington Harbour, with public works site (reclamation?) on the shore behind them. Photograph taken in 1974 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Public Works Department locomotives, and workmen, Taranaki region
Date: 1912
From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district
Reference: 1/1-010075-G
Description: Public Works Department locomotives, and workmen, in the Taranaki region, 1912. Joe (Witnoski?), foreman plate layer, is fourth from the left. Possibly taken at the (36? or 33?) mile peg camp on the western side of the Whangamomona Saddle, used as a temporary terminus while the Whangamomona tunnel was being constructed. The locomotive on the left is possibly D315. L507 is on the right. Photograph taken by James McAllister. Note on back of file print reads: see also 1/1-012574 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Fletcher, David 1952- :"The minister wants to release more funds for road maintenance."...
Date: 2012
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
By: Dominion post (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0022555
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A man brings a phone to a colleague and tells him that the minister wants him to release more funds for road maintenance. The other man asks where the minister is calling from, and the response is 'the bottom of a pothole.' Context: The Transport Agency issued an operating budget with a 2.3%, below-inflation increase in maintenance funding for roads for the next three years. (New Zealand Herald, 5 June 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).