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Jaycees' Raft Race: Won by Valuation Department Crew

This set of unpublished images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

The race was "won by a six-man crew from the Valuation Department. It comprised John Clendin, Dave Roxburgh, Bob Mitchell, Dave ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 1973

Jaycees' Raft Race: To the Victors, Heaps of Flour

The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

"To the victors, certainly not the spoils, but heaps of flour. As the Valuation Department team drifted under the Fitzherbert B...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 1973

Jaycees' Raft Race: An 88-Strong Armada of Rafts

The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

"An 88-strong armada of rafts makes its way down the Manawatu River yesterday during the Awapuni Jaycees' fourth annual raft ra...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 1973

Official Opening of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

"Pressing an electric button on the official platform a short distance from the city end of the new Fitzherbert bridge, His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway, to-day, broke a red, white and blue ribbon stretched taut across the end of t...

Date:          July 20, 1935

Second Fitzherbert Bridge, view from the Esplanade

A view of the second Fitzherbert Bridge over the Manawatū River from the Victoria Esplanade gardens. It is similar, but not identical to image 2018P_2018-12_025126.

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1...

Date:          circa 1940

Unveiling of commemorative plaques beside the Fitzherbert Bridge

On 17 August 2002, four commemorative plaques from the second Fitzherbert Bridge were unveiled fiexed to the remaining original 1935 bridge arches, now an archway near the cycle track in the Esplanade. After the 1935 bridge was demolished in 1987,...

Date:          August 2002

Commemorative plaques beside the Fitzherbert Bridge

On 17 August 2002, four commemorative plaques from the second Fitzherbert Bridge were unveiled fiexed to the remaining original 1935 bridge arches, now an archway near the cycle track in the Esplanade. After the 1935 bridge was demolished in 1987,...

Date:          August 2002

Manawatū River, looking eastwards from the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

The second Fitzherbert Bridge, view from the southern end

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          circa 1950

The second Fitzherbert Bridge at sunset

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

View of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

The second Fitzherbert Bridge - view through the northeastern buttress

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

The three southernmost Arches of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

The two southernmost Arches of the Second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1950

The first Fitzherbert Bridge, with the Manawatū River in Flood

This image is taken from a postcard. It shows a flood which possibly took place earlier than 1908.

The first Fitzherbert Bridge was built between 1876 and 1877, but was only useable from 1878 after the adjoining road was formed and metalled. It wa...

Creator:      Whalley and Co.
Date:          circa 1908

The Northern end of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          circa 1950

Construction of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1933 to 1934

The decking of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1935

The decking of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1935

Construction of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...

Date:          1933 to 1935

Piledriver for Construction of the second Fitzherbert Bridge

The pile driver, for establishing the foundations of the concrete piers of the second bridge, is shown in front of the first Fitzherbert Bridge.

The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was...

Date:          1934

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