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Shown here is the second gasworks, built by the Palmerston North Borough Council and opened 21 December 1923. The original gasworks were opened in 1889 on the corner of Cook and Main Streets. The Napier Road coal-based Gasworks went out of operation on November 1970, when Palmerston North was connected to a pipeline from the Kapuni gas field, Taranaki.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection G 18
Date
1950
Digitisation ID
2011P_G18_004811
Held In
Coolstore

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Place
Palmerston North

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License
Attribution + NonCommercial

Taxonomy

Tags
building,
buildings,
energy,
gas works,
photographs,
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