The photograph shows the machinery digging out gravel and depositing it into large buckets. The Longburn gravel pit was primarily used for railways ballast. Charles Henry Foley is on the far left.
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Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Date
- circa 1908 to circa 1910
- Digitisation ID
- 2007N_R19_WOR_0120
- Held In
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
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