IMAGE
Drilling for the airport subway at Rongotai, Wellington
- Date
- 19 July 1950
- Reference
- 114/175/07-G
- Description
Deputy City Engineer Mr F B C Jeffreys, City Engineer Mr K E Luke, Councillor L T Jacobsen and the Mayor Sir William Appleton watch a drilling expert assemble the equipment to drill test bores in the playing fields of Rongotai College. These are to determine the quality of the soil before construction of a subway under the future airstrip of the airport at Rongotai. Photograph taken 19 July 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper / Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate negatives, Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres, Orientation: Horizontal image
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