Methodist Coffee Club team, from left, Ella Scott, Keith Brough, Janice Bradley, Joyce Gilling, Robbie Gemmell, Don Onekawa, Graham Rako, Allan Falkingham, Neville Evans, Diane McCutcheon, Mrs Pie...
Elephant race to raise funds for intellectually disabled children. The riders are Mrs Valerie Young, followed by Mr Martin Hobby a Waimairi County councillor and Mr Colin Curragh of the Canterbury...
All Black winger Bill Birtwistle, the pacer horse On Probation, and cyclist Tino Tabak lining up at the start of a 110 yard race at Belfast. Bill Birtwistle won the race, On Probation came second and...
Group of female roller skaters from the show "Roll-O-Capers" skating in costume at Canterbury Court. From left, Fergie Jamieson, Angela Butters, Sharon Houghton, Noeline Campbell, Sue Duder, Gay...
Large crowds of people on the beach and in the sea at Corsair bay during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Viva Sila standing on Waltham Road.
Viva Sila and Tafaoga Carmine, 50s style, at a Trinity Church dance at the old Railway Station Hall.
Back row: George Fidow (left), Seu Siave (middle) and Robert Aumatagi (right). Front row: Senetenari Faimalo (middle) and Mareko Tulia (right).
Exterior of the newly built Halswell Methodist Church.
Exterior of the Spencerville Residents Association Community Hall, Hayders Road, during construction. Members of the Association are pictured working on completing the building along with three...
Miss Jenny Flaver putting colour on some souvenir head scarves using a new process of textile screen printing, the only one of its kind in New Zealand. The process uses Swiss dyes in place of a...
Stainless steel milk tanker manufactured in Hamilton for Canterbury Dairy Farmers Ltd parked outside farm building awaiting use.
View from the overhead bridge across the idle railway yard at Waltham during a day of strike action. The Port Hills are visible in the background.
A Romaldini motorcycle rider crashing through a flaming timber and tarred paper wall as part of the Romaldini daredevil riders show in Templeton.
New Zealand skating fours champions Rex Davies, Brian Wray, Rae Dawson and Doreen Dobson practicing the "death spin" move at Canterbury Court.
Group shot of the Canterbury members of the New Zealand roller skating team photographed before their departure from Christchurch Airport heading to the world congress amateur roller skating...
View of Barry's Bay, Ōnawe Peninsula, and Duvauchelle from the road leading down to Barry's Bay.
Members of the Christchurch City Council Art Gallery Committee observe a demonstration of etches being printed at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.
Bowling club pavilion at Hagley Park with a green in the foreground which has been flooded to increase growth during a dry summer.
Mrs B. Walker sends down the first bowl at the opening of the Burwood Bowling Club's season.
Exterior of the South Brighton Community Centre
A group stringing up eels to dry as part of a gathering at Rapaki to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist holding one of his books next to a shelf of books and Father Fredrick McGuire.
Close-up of a newly launched BS3 Atlas range electric stove with saucepan on one of the elements.