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  • "Top Soil for the Roundabout" - Under Construction at the Broadway Avenue & Princess Street Intersection
  • "Top Soil for the Roundabout" - Under Construction at the Broadway Avenue & Princess Street Intersection
Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 June 1958, page 8: "Preparations for grassing in the Spring were being made at the intersection of Princess Street and Broadway Avenue today. Top soil was spread over the section and the planting of grass will follow. It is possible that flower beds may be set into the grass."

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2017-20
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
June 17, 1958
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_014790
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

Tags
road works,
Community Tags
roundabout,
soil,

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