Newspaper caption: Workers using picks and shovels to excavate a rock cutting during the construction of the section of the Midland Railway line between Staircase Gully and Broken River.
Newspaper caption: A 'snapshot' taken during the time of the Midland Railway construction. Workmen using 'pick and shovel' and horse and trolley clear away surface rock at the Bealey end of the line.
Views of the New Brighton sandcastle competition.
Archaeologist June Collett, and unidentified volunteers, digging in trenches outside of the Kaiapoi Pā with buckets and shovels.
Unemployed youth working the vegetable plot on the property of funeral director Fred A. Trotter (297 Ferry Road) as part of an employment scheme.
Views of Torlesse Ranges and Porters Pass while approaching from Springfield.[Frame 39] M. Alderson.
Views of Mr R. Schmierer with his uprooted vegetable crop at 52 Gilberthorpes Road.
Men working on railway tracks at the Christchurch railway yard after the derailment of several carriages, one visible in background.
[Frame 22] Snow in the yard of a house. [Frame 23] People boarding a Police bus. [Frames 24 to 27] Two children shovelling snow in Springfield.
Scenes during a snowstorm in Springfield.
Children, including Tony Marshall and Craig Barnard, planting trees in Victoria Park.
Wayne Glassey shovelling snow in Springfield. [Frame 7a] Army drivers David Gray and Robin Owen-Cooper eating sausages during snow in Springfield.
Sebastian Scalia shovelling snow in Springfield.
Workers at Centennial Pool during reconstruction.
Firemen at a fire at the Riccarton Workingmens Club in Wharenui Road.
Grant Brown digging beside a damaged garage in Redcliffs after a rockfall.
B. Ching and M. O. Holdsworth on Ramada Inn roof, laying Commonwealth Games Coins in a topping ceremony.
Michael Carter, who had his foot amputated after a motor accident, sitting on a stool holding a shovel.
Boy’s Brigade members doing work in the garden of former Christchurch Mayor George Manning in Spreydon.
Hobdays Lawn Mower Service in Colombo Street.