Items in 1940s Christchurch Star photographs

View of the clock tower on the Post Office building in Cathedral Square with decorations for New Zealand centennial celebrations.

View across a field on the Dowling Estate in Upper Fendalton, growing potatoes being used to feed the New Zealand Army during the Second World War.

A crowd watches a potter at work at the New Zealand Industries Fair in October 1941 at the Dalgety's buildings in Moorhouse Ave.

Views of a bridge under construction at the Prebbleton railway crossing on Springs Road.

Aerial view of the Prebbleton overhead bridge on Springs Road.

View of St Giles Presbyterian church on the corner of Frank Street and Papanui Road.

Presentation room at the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) building.

Three men preparing a produce stall at the New Zealand Industries Fair in 1941 at the Dalgety's buildings in Moorhouse Ave.

Provincial Council Building seen from Durham Street.

Provincial Council buildings seen from Durham Street.

Exterior of the Salvation Army Resthaven Home at 901 Colombo Street.

View of Riccarton North from dehydration works chimney showing railway lines.

View of Riccarton South from dehydration works chimney.

Aerial view of state housing settlement at Riccarton showing Riccarton Road and Paeroa Street. One of the first aerial photographs taken of the city since the ban on civil flying was lifted after the...

View of the Robert Falcon Scott statue on Worcester Street with Oxford Terrace to the left and Avon River on the right. Next to the statue are air raid shelters which were temporarily in place during...

Rubber workers' display at the New Zealand Industries Fair during October 1941 at the Dalgety's building on Moorhouse Ave.

View across a field with sacks filled with onions in rows.

Two men in the Heathcote River sandbagging the riverbed in preparation for the laying of a new water main which crosses Western Terrace at this point.

Exterior of the Sydenham Post Office building built in 1911 at 340 Colombo Street, Sydenham. The building is covered in scaffolding in preparation for the demolition of the clock tower to reduce the...

Exterior of the School of Art building at Canterbury College on the corner of Hereford Street and Rolleston Avenue.

Workers with fleece and taking it to be rolled.

A tractor operated scoop clearing snow at Carlton Corner on the corner of Papanui Road and Bealey Avenue.

View looking across Cathedral Square covered in snow towards the Regent Theatre.

Four New Zealand Army soldiers, two on the ground and two jumping over barbed wire, at a military display with a crowd watching in the background.