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Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-7364

Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..

Date: [between 1925 and 1927]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-q-268

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1927 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker. Inserted in a pocket inside the back cover there are three loose photographs showing the Hutt Road alongside Wellington Harbour. Photographs of the Hutt Road include those alongside the harbour, and also some of the "Main Hutt Road" in Lower and Upper Hutt. Most of the photographs have good captions, with the title at the head of each one which reads "Asphaltic concrete pavement". Other - Some of the original negatives, from which these photographs were printed, are amongst the Wellington City Council collection at PAColl-5448. Other Titles - Asphaltic concrete pavement Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled "Photographs", 65 black paper pages of black and white photographs; 28.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: ca 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3039-1-027

Description: View of a motor road roller on the Mangaroa-Kaitoke road, with two workmen standing alongside. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1924. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 196 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Motor road roller. Mangaroa-Kaitoke Road. Arrangement: Original negative at APG-1283-1/2 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [between 1925 and 1926]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943

Reference: PA1-q-267

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1926 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker and Horace R Maybury. Other - Original negatives, from which some of these photographs were printed, are amongst the Welllington City Council collection at PAColl-5448 Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s) on album pages. Physical Description: Album with beige fabric cover and 58 brown paper pages, entitled "Album"; 27.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1931, [ca 1930-1932]

From: Cottrell, William, 1956- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9974

Description: Photographs featuring the process of road surfacing, taken in the early 1930s, including machinery labelled British Pavements Ltd. One taken on Main Street, Eketahuna, Tararua district, outside 'Farmers Liverpool House' in May 1931 and one taken circa 1930-1932, probably on the outskirts of Christchurch. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Circa 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1283-1/2-G

Description: View of a motor road roller on the Mangaroa-Kaitoke road, with two workmen standing alongside. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1924. Inscriptions: Album page - Motor road roller. Mangaroa-Kaitoke Road. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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

Date: 1939

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-048865-G

Description: Shows roadworks being carried out with a steamroller on a bend in the Hutt Road north of Ngauranga in 1939. A car and a lorry are parked on the roadside. A sign displaying Hannah's Shoes can be seen on the building on the right. Photograph taken by a staff photographer of the Evening Post. "A bend in the Hutt Road, just north of Ngauranga where the super elevation, standard for such a curve, has raised the reconstruction road well above the cycle track' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: early 1920s

From: Hosie, J C :Photographs of Manaia

Reference: 1/2-058513-F

Description: Road construction using a steamroller, Waimate West County. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).