Pilot, Mr Max Conrad, sat in the cockpit of the aircraft which will take him around the world called the "St. Louis Woman".
Service members marching down Colombo Street into Cathedral Square to commemorate the Battle of Britain.
John Gallacher, 2, sitting inside a tyre on farm machinery at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show.
Telephone operators in the Jaycees Dial-a-Dollar campaign to raise funds for a swimming pool. Manning the phones are, from left, J.S. Crosbie, J. McGirr, A. R. McLachland and M. P. Winder.
L.J. Eggers, winner of the Canterbury Master Printers' Association 1969 typography award.
Former Caxton Press printing press on display at Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery during New Zealand library and book week, 1969.
Aerial view of the site of the Christchurch Teachers College, Ilam during the early stages of construction.
A temporary building on a section at the intersection of Kilmore and Montreal Streets being used for teacher training.
Interior of the Christchurch Star front office on Kilmore Street on the release of the first edition of the newspaper.
Carolyne Walker, Marlene Fitzwilliams, Wendy Ramage and other contestants cross the finish line in the Shrove Tuesday pancake race, New Brighton.
The beach at Kairaki near the mouth of the Waimakariri River with whitebait nets.
View of broken plate glass which was broken in the hold of the Rikke Skou - caused by poor unloading of cargo at Lyttelton.
Demonstration of a container handling side lifting fork lift truck lifting a Christchurch Transport Board bus at Sockburn.
A container being swung ashore from the Mataura at Lyttelton Harbour.
Workers in protective clothing guiding the mechanical wheat trimmer in the hold of the Union Steam Ship Company Kaimai during the loading of wheat into the cargo ship at Lyttelton.
Aerial view of the science departments at the University of Canterbury. Looking north towards Creyke Road.
Aerial view of the science and engineering departments at the University of Canterbury's Ilam campus.
Model of the University of Canterbury James Hight library building.
Construction of the Cam Road underpass on the northern motorway near Kaiapoi.
S. Munro, Reginald McNaughton and Joseph Gallagher playing golf at Coronation Hospital.
Dr Leslie C. L. Averill at the site of the construction of the new boiler room for Corornation Hospital.
A load of piles being removed from a transporter at Lyttelton.
The mini-mini-micro bike of Stuart McLean.
Stuart McLean riding his mini-mini-micro bike up Colombo Street past Victoria Square.