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Description

This group of 'bush whackers' was working Pohangina Valley East Road at Komako. The men were employed by Dick Port and Alex Stewart, who had the contract to fell bush. Identified: Wilf Galer (2nd from left, with arms folded); Dick Port (3rd from left, standing on jiggerboard with right hand on hip); Bill Davey (3rd from right, in foregound on cross-cut saw); Jack Enright (second from right, standing on jiggerboard in distance); (possibly) George Adsett, (front right with black hat).

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bf 3
Date
circa 1904
Digitisation ID
2009N_Bf3_RTL_2680
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
axes,
buildings,
rural,
saws,
wildbore,
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