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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 5 Sept 1923:
ROADS THAT LAST
…
The big bituminous paving plant on order for the City Council should arrive in Wellington in the course of a few weeks now… Wellington in the early days was very well content to bump its carts and wagons along over plain beach tracks, over grass tracks just as they might happen to be, and over the ruts when the grass wore away. Clay, roads came next…
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Black-and-white photo: Karori road works with horses and carts. 1923. Shows men working on the bank of a road cutting. Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Crown Studios Ltd: Negatives and prints. Ref: 1/1-032576-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23221798
Black-and-white photo: Road sealing, Victoria Street, March 1926. Looking south down Victoria Street just beyond the point that it begins at its northern intersection with Hunter Street. Likely photographed from a mobile cable inspection / repair platform used for working on power and phone / telegraph cables. Photographer, F. G. Barker. Wellington City Libraries, Reference No. 50010-121. https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/5483
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