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Looking west to the Mangaone Stream workmen lay a concrete road on Rangitikei Line, near the corner of Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue). The railway now passes through the centre of this site and the concrete road has been replaced by the approach to the railway ramp. From left: unknown x3; Frank Cahill (pipe in mouth); Tom Kilpatrick (holding bucket); unknown x2; Arthur Hopwood (standing alongside cement bags); unknown (with bicycle in rear); unknown (with shovel in front); Ted Henry (hand on hip); George Check (rear); Harry Mouldey (in centre of concrete strip); Loyal Craw (with one foot on concrete strip); Dick Moxon (with foot on wheel barrow); Dave Craw (with hands on shovel); Ahi Tapu (in front with shovel); unknown x2; George Craw (far right).

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Ro 30
Date
circa 1917
Digitisation ID
2007N_Ro30_WOR_0123
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
labour,
machinery,
photographs,
roading,
rubble,
tools,
work,
workmen,
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