Scenes of Municipal Electricity Department workers lowering their colleague, Sammy Hurunui to the ground and laying him flat during a simulated electric shock incident and rescue.
Angus McAlpine with tampered meters and spliced cables.
Municipal Electricity Department linesman, Wayne O'Keefe, replacing the 400 volt mercury lamps on Harper Avenue with new 250 volt high pressure sodium models.
M.E.D. test assistant Don Donaldson repairing an electric clock.
No fishing sign in the water filled excavation beside the Municipal Electricity Department building on Manchester Street.
Artwork by Bing Dawe on the footpath outside the Municipal Electricity Department on Manchester Street.
For Sale sign outside the Municipal Electricity Department building on Manchester Street.
Harry Tickle and Jim Griffiths replacing the figures on the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) clock.
The new control room at the Municipal Electricity Department (MED).
Installation of sodium highway lamps on Blenheim Road by the Municipal Electricity Department (MED).
Display of electrical appliances.
The Municipal Electricity Department building on the corner of Manchester Street and Armagh Street.
View of a crane setting the new clock for the MED building on Manchester Street in place.
Municipal Electricity Department (MED) operator Peter Farrell (left) and controller Alick Smith.
A traffic officer at the closed Manchester Street bridge over the Avon River to allow restoration work to be carried out. View is looking south from the intersection with Cambridge Terrace towards the...
Municipal Electricity Department workers transferring powerlines from one pole to another at the junction of Kilmore and Durham streets.
Municipal Electricity Department workers installing the new lamps on one of the main streets in the central city.
The Municipal Electricity Department workers, John Hiddleston, Greg Freeman and Jim Tangira, burning rubbish to keep warm.
A man stood in the control room of the Municipal Electricity Department (MED).
Extensions to the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) building.
Municipal Electricity Department (MED) building under construction on Manchester Street.
Presentation room at the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) building.