These images were taken for the July 2nd, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published. They depict Berry Engineering sheet-metal worker John Eaton discussing his life altering diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. ...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 2, 1978

The photograph shows the machinery digging out gravel and depositing it into large buckets. The Longburn gravel pit was primarily used for railways ballast. Charles Henry Foley is on the far left.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1908 to circa 1910