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This photo shows the timber groynes built by the Palmerston North Borough Council in an attempt to prevent riverbank erosion, c 1909-1910. The river moved south-westward at at this bend between the 1890s and the 1940s and serious erosion took place.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection St 30
Date
circa 1909
Digitisation ID
2014N_St30_008742
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
engineering,
fence,
groin,
photographs,
streets,
water,
weir,
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