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This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 June, 1963. "A half-inch wire rope attached to a bulldozer strained as it held 16 tons of prefabricated house at Kaihinau Road, north of Shannon. The house stopped just short of balancing point on the brink of a 200ft near-vertical drop when the edge of the road gave way beneath its transporters at 1 p.m. yesterday."

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Date
June 18, 1963
Digitisation ID
2017N_2017-20_017718
Format
B&W negative

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Taxonomy

Tags
1960s,
accidents,
bulldozer,
house removal,
keith hay homes,
road collapse,
shannon,
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