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Feature: Thomas Ward Maps/ Whakaaturanga Thomas Ward Mahere

1892 map sheet 33

 

     
Circa 1900 map sheet 33

 

  
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g. Streetscape, Taranaki Street, Mount Cookb. Footpath, Nairn St, Brooklyn Flatse. Substandard dwellings. see log booka. damage to concrete pathd. Otaki St, Awa Rd, Totara Rdd. Mansfield Street Flatsf. Meter repairing. accident chart. sign erecting. vehicle inspection Corporation yard. loadmeter. brake test. night shotCivic Centre Reconstructiond. Japanese Lily, Botanical GardensSummer Citya. Drilling, cnr Randwick Road and Curtis Stl. Bridle Track, Khandallah to Kaiwharawharag. Roadworks, repairs to footpath, road and kerbing, corner of Orangi Kaupapa Road and Woburn RoadPanoramas - HarbourHMS PinaforeLooking towards Lambton Quay, showing intersection with Featherston Street, Waring Taylor Street, new asphaltic concrete surface, October 1923H Barber, butcher Lambton Quay, in front of his shopj. Different pieces of equipment held by the Stores Department at the Corporation YardCapital Development Agency - Santa Paradeb. Reception, traffic houseCivic Centre Reconstructiond. Display at Winter Showk. Footpaths - various streets. Lombard Street Parking building from Manners Stk. Micro strainer, Morton Damc. Rosalind Street, Ngaiob. Drainage, Stout StWellington Hotelv. Lombard Street parking building from Manners Street end of Cornhill St. views of excavation. Petherick Cr, pensioner flat dev. Ironside Rd-Pinewood Tourist flats. 33 Hanover St-proposed flatsf. Art Galleryb. Tory St. Vivian St. Cricketers Arms Hotel'Russell & Sons, Grocery, Drapery, Hardware and Produce' store and 'R J Johnsen, Grocer' store, a delivery van is parked outside Johnsen'sSummer CitySouthern Coastal Scenes, Island Bayj. Substandard dwellings: Nos 36-38 Edinburgh Tce. 50, 56 Buckley Rd. 17 Happy Valley Rda. Parking building, Lombard Streeta. Mr AH Thomas and senior officers, Milk Deptf. Paved path to Houghton Bay School, off Buckley Rd, damaged by kidsb. Flats in Residential A - Tapiri Street flatsc. Karori ReservoirPole Clearances on Verandahs, Caledonia Street, Ghuznee Street, and Cambridge Terracea. 183 Rintoul Sto. Various views of Taranaki Street road works. Includes Traffic Offices directing traffic, the Panama Hotel on the corner of Vivian Street, Wright Stevenson Building, workmen and equipment, and motor vehicleCivic Centre ReconstructionCourtenay Place - Dixon Street, Ghuznee Street, Taranaki StreetPhotograph of the new alsphaltic concrete surface. Shows coastline, Days Bay [Muratai] Road, May 1926Roller Skating, Poriruab. Costing Dept GroupOld Library and Technical college11-15 Crosby Terrace, inside and outside, Council Properties future Victoria Street, exteriorBolton Street Cemetery
 
 
 

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