This piece of equipment appears to be a portable well digger. Richardson Drilling Co Ltd was founded in 1925 by Thomas Harold Richardson, as a water well contractor. The business was originally located at 37 Ferguson Street, which was renumbered o...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: unknown
This grader was owned by the Kairanga County Council and used on their roads. The exact locality of this photograph is unknown. Mr Jack Findlay is standing on the grader.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown - Manawatu
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1918
The brick morgue was built by the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904 and was transported from its original site in Church Street (at the rear of the old Opera House) to a new site at Terrace End Cemetery in Napier Road in 1908. The council e...
Creator: Samuel Jickell [?]
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1908
The traction engine, owned by Mr W Eggleton of Bunnythorpe, is stumping a farm on Stoney Creek Road near Bunnythorpe (possibly that of Mr R H James).
Creator: Unknown
Place: Bunnythorpe
Date: 1918
W H Foot's sawmill at the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, was probably the last mill operating on the northern Tararuas. It was erected in 1920 and operated until about 1927. The mill was situated on what is now Mr Don Scott's property....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1920
This view shows Mr George Lucas' dwellinghouse (cut into two portions) being shifted from Penny's Line, Mt Stewart, to Awahuri. The traction engine belonged to Mr John Matthews of Mt Stewart and was being driven by his son, Hector. Mr Lucas was th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Penny Road, Awahuri
Date: circa 1920
Mr Eggleton uses his traction engine to move a boiler from Shannon to Mangahao to the new hydro works. It is thought that the boiler was used to pump air into the tunnels being driven into the rock during the construction of the power station.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mangahao, Shannon
Date: circa 1920
Gough Gough and Hamer first opened a branch in Palmerston North in September 1936. Their premises were in Rangitikei Street.
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 35.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This photograph shows a burst water main at Harry Palmer's residence on the corner of Lombard and Featherston Streets. Water is being pumped from the trench where the main outlet sewer is being laid.
Creator: N C Nielsen
Place: Corner of Lombard and Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
This photograph looks south-westward towards Foxton beach and shows the reconstruction of a swampy area. The Barber-Green bucket excavator can be seen excavating peat and flax from the side of the old roadway. the contractor is V. Lumbye of Foxton.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1938
The “Marion’ floating dredge hard at work widening the Linton main drain, note the large wooden cover on the rear of the machine. This dredge, built by the Marion Steam Shovel Co. of the USA was purchased in 1922 by the Makerua Srainage Board.
Creator: Hugh Akers [?]
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1920
The “Marion’ floating dredge hard at work widening the Linton main drain. This dredge, built by the Marion Steam Shovel Co. of the USA was purchased in 1922 by the Makerua Srainage Board.
Creator: Hugh Akers [?]
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1920
These men were employed by New Zealand Laykold Ltd, of Wellington, the contractors for the reconstruction of the road between Foxton and Foxton Beach. This firm owned a bitumen factory in Wellington and employed Mr L C Eggers (photographer) as ove...
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1939
Mr Alex McDonald is driving the tractor and Mr "Snow" Stewart is spraying. They were sealing the reconstructed road between Foxton and Foxton Beach. New Zealand Laykold Ltd, of Wellington, were the contractors for this job.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: April 1939
Mr Alex McDonald is driving the tractor and Mr "Snow" Stewart is spraying. They were sealing the reconstructed road between Foxton and Foxton Beach.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: April 1939
New Zealand Laykold Ltd, of Wellington, were the contractors for reconstructing the road between Foxton and Foxton Beach. This firm owned a bitumen factory in Wellington and employed Mr L C Eggers (photographer) as overseer for the contract.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: April 1939
This gravel pit was situated in Maxwell's Line between the Awapuni Hospital and Racecourse Road. The area was vested in the Palmerston North Road Board by NZ Gazette of 24/12/1884 (p 1742) 'in trust as a gravel pit'. Ownership transferred to the n...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915 to circa 1916
This photograph looks south-westward towards Foxton beach and shows the reconstruction of a swampy area. The Barber-Green bucket excavator can be seen excavating peat and flax from the side of the old roadway.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1938
These men were employed by New Zealand Laykold Ltd, of Wellington, who had the contract to construct a road between Paraparaumu township and the beach. The man on the left is Jimmy Bain and the man on the right is unidentified. This firm owned a b...
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Unknown
Date: 1937
Bertie (Bert) Albert was born 2 January, 1883 at 75 Venue Street in Bromley, Poplar, Country of Middlesex, London. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1910 on the Arawa, arriving in Wellington in 1911. Bert worked in one of the dairy factories i...
Creator: Bertie (Bert) Albert
Date: 1915 to 1920
This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
This engine provided the motive power for Mr George Craw’s flaxmill at Linton in 1904-1911. When the mill was destroyed by fire in 1911 the engine was hauled from Linton to Palmerston North where it was reconditioned by the firm of Adam Burgess i...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1911
The traction engine, owned by Mr W Eggleton of Bunnythorpe, is stumping a farm on Stoney Creek Road, near Bunnythorpe. It is possibly the farm of Mr R H James.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Bunnythorpe, Manawatū
Date: 1918
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 35.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This traction engine was owned by Mr John Matthews and is seen cutting timber on his farm, "Burnam", on Stewart's Line, Mt Stewart. The engine is being driven by Hector Matthews, a son of John. The timber was macrocarpa and was used for making gat...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mt Stewart
Date: 1910