Items in 1972 Christchurch Star photographs

People queuing along Kilmore Street and around onto Colombo street to view the newly opened Christchurch Town Hall.

T. H. Greer gives a mechanical demonstration to Diane Clark, Jill Ritchie and Janice Kershaw.

A group of women being shown a mechanical demonstration.

Interior of Provincial Council building showing flagstone floor.

Bret de Their, designer of publicity for the Arts Festival, putting up posters on the roundhouse by the Stewart fountain on High Street.

Map inside a brochure showing proposed changes to Christchurch Transport Board bus stops in Cathedral Square.

Cover of a Christchurch Transport Board brochure on the re-formation of Cathedral Square bus stops. Includes a list of places of interest in the Christchurch area and what buses to catch to get there.

Regal Auto Services at 10 Mowbray Street in Waltham.

Brian Culhane, Peter Anderson, and Mick Milner on the roof of the Provincial Council building.

Portrait of Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist.

Sergeant Colin Ryan, gunnery instructor, explaining the capabilities of a field gun to Riccarton High School students during their visit to Burnham Military Camp. Students, from left, Gary Campbell...

Group of fourth form students from Riccarton High School watching an engine being tested at the Armagh Street workshop of the New Zealand Motor Corporation. The students toured the site as part of...

Eisuke Ohya, George Robb, and Colin Harvey roller skating in the first international event at Canterbury Court.

A firefighter wearing a rubber ammonia suit with a spark proof torch attached to the hip at the Central Fire Station at 200 Kilmore Street.

A house on Collins Street, Addington, which is being converted into a midway home for alcoholics.

The bridge which links the Salvation Army's social centre on Poulson Street to a house on Collins Street which is being converted into a midway home for alcoholics.

Sandra Willian, of the Canterbury Court Roller Skating Club and winner of the junior girls free skating event at the South Island roller skating championships held in Twizel.

Mr B.R. Walker (left) chairman of the marine search and rescue committee planning an exercise over a chart of Lyttelton Harbour with Mr W. Baguley secretary of the Sumner Lifeboat Association.

Former servicemen tearing up a placard depicting the Vietnam War at the Citizens War Memorial in Cathedral Square during Anzac day services.

Close-up of a sewing machinist at work at Lane Walker Rudkin Industries sewing a number onto a football jersey.

Valerie Marshall cycling while competing in the Shrove Tuesday pancake race on Seaview Road in New Brighton.

Janette Smith (left) and Beverley Church practicing for the Shrove Tuesday pancake race at New Brighton.

Advertising balloon for SIMU Insurance Company suspended over a radio tower. Taken looking North East across the city from Gloucester Street.

Sir Denis Blundell, official Governor-General of New Zealand with Christchurch Mayor, Mr N.G. Pickering outside the new Christchurch Town Hall on Kilmore Street.