"Willows Cleared from Lagoon"

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 December 1960 "Parks and reserves employees are pictured engaged in clearing willows from the city side of the Hokowhitu Lagoon. To enable the work to be carries out quickly a punt was used to attach ropes to the trees which were then hauled across the lagoon by a waiting tractor and winch."

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2017-20

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

December 1, 1960

Digitisation id

2017N_2017-20_015944

Format

B&W negative

Held in

Other