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.
Municipal Electricity Department linesman, Wayne O'Keefe, replacing the 400 volt mercury lamps on Harper Avenue with new 250 volt high pressure sodium models.
No fishing sign in the water filled excavation beside the Municipal Electricity Department building on Manchester Street.
Municipal Electricity Department (MED) operator Peter Farrell (left) and controller Alick Smith.
View of a crane setting the new clock for the MED building on Manchester Street in place.
Display of electrical appliances.
The Municipal Electricity Department building on the corner of Manchester Street and Armagh Street.
Harry Tickle and Jim Griffiths replacing the figures on the Municipal Electricity Department (MED) clock.
Shelves of tools in store at the Municipal Electricity Department.
Portrait of Edwin Hallett Mace, Chief Engineer for the Municipal Electricity Department.
Portrait of Wilfred Gordon Johnstone.
Installation of street lamps on St Asaph Street.
Firefighters attending a damaged substation at Moncks Spur.
Firefighters attending a substation at Moncks Spur damaged by a concrete mixer truck.
MED float in the Century of Progress procession.
Lines department staff standing outside the Municipal Electricity Department building on Manchester Street.
Municipal Electricity Department mobile crane on Salisbury Street.
Municipal Electricity Department mobile crane on Park Terrace.
S. Davis in a hydraulic platform truck outside the Municipal Electricity Department.
Milton Street substation control board inside the Armagh Street substation.
A crane lifting a cable drum at the Municipal Electricity Department depot on Packe Street.
Customers examine a display in the showroom of the Municipal Electricity Department.
Payments counter at the Municipal Electricity Department.
Reception desk of the Municipal Electricity Department.