Large crowd of students stood on the grounds of Breens Intermediate School on opening day.
Mr Peter Parmenter, of the Christchurch City Council Works Department, unloading Arts Festival symbols outside Christchurch Town Hall ahead of them being put up across the city.
View of Fort Jervois, Ripapa Island just off the Banks Peninsula near Diamond Harbour.
Construction of the creche at the University of Canterbury.
Aerial view of Carlton Mill corner showing the traffic control lines.
Aerial view showing the construction of the new Parklands subdivision.
Aerial view of the construction site of the new Supreme Court.
Aerial view of the construction of the new housing subdivision on Worsley Spur.
Was the heyday of the circus visiting town when it was OK to have elephants tied up. Locals were allowed to go and feed the elephants with bread - very exciting to us city girls
The site of the Durham Street overbridge in Sydenham looking north to the intersection with Moorhouse Avenue, prior to construction starting.
Two men at the Addington Railway Workshops stood beneath a train engine next to a newly installed underfloor lathe, used to grind down locomotive wheels to their correct size.
The quadrangle at the former University of Canterbury building, now the Christchurch Arts Centre.
Paul Yeo, Jill Overeem, Lynn Surgenor and Tricia Hewett stop for a break during a rafting trip on the Waimakariri River.
Jackie Sibley, marching team leader, with medals.
Barbara Chapman, one of the organisers of Orientation Week, completes a display at the University of Canterbury.
Students at Burnside High display their school's uniforms.