Valerie Livingstone, a library assistant at Canterbury Public ...

Mrs Dorothea Brown, libraries manager, (left) and US Ambassador ...

Exterior of the Canterbury Public Library taken from the ...

Exterior of the Canterbury Public Library lit up at night taken ...

Customers browsing at the Canterbury Public Library book sale at ...

Interior of the main atrium area of the Canterbury Public ...

Librarian, Sue McLennan, stood in front of the two newly ...

A boat clearing the weeds from the Heathcote River looking ...

View of a coffer dam being built on the Heathcote River.

Houses on Waimea Terrace with the Heathcote River in the ...

Excavations on Bamford Street in Woolston to lower a pipeline.

Barbara Anderson, a Woolston resident, at the Radley Street ...

Flooding of the Heathcote River on Clarendon Terrace.

View of the bridge over the Heathcote River estuary under low ...

Timberlands site on Mandeville Street, Riccarton.

People inspecting a split log.

Larry Moore uses a wedge and axe to retrieve his saw from a log.

John Hinton with examples of damage to timber caused by ...

Bill Moore sharpening a pit saw.

Canterbury Timber Stockpile Company yard at Harewood.

Ivan Boyce (left), manager at McVicar Timber yard, and office ...

Exterior of the new office at the McVicar Timber yard at ...

Timber being loaded onto a truck at McVicar's Southbrook yard.

Exterior of the McVicar Timber head office on Johns Road.