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The Montessori system in operation at the Sunbeam Kindergarten at St Albans

1915

Children attended here from three to five years of age. The ...

A Highways Transport Leyland truck carrying a load of petrol in 44 gallon drums

circa 1930

Prior to this, petrol was supplied in ten gallon tins and ...

Girls in a small workroom engaged on assembly work

Early 1940s

By 1947 there were some 35,000 women working in New Zealand ...

The Bicycle Band

Circa 1900

Christchurch's Bicycle Band claimed to be the only one of its ...

Many girls in mass-production factories work on moving belts

Early 1940s

These girls are packing biscuits

During the war, girls were engaged on a wide range of jobs

This young woman is servicing the engine of a Gypsy Major ...

Munitions jobs were often monotonous

Early 1940s

Small factories making munitions of various kinds were spread ...

Wartime milk delivery, corner Alpha Avenue and Normans Road, Bryndwr, Christchurch

1942

In 1942 petrol rationing came into force and milk was delivered ...

Appeal for free kindergartens

7 October 1936

A well-stocked flower stall in Cathedral Square when the ...

Women's Land Army plots, Abberley Park, St Albans

1942

Vegetable crops were grown at the experimental section farmed at ...

A classroom at Fendalton Open-Air School, Clyde Road, Christchurch

1928

By the 1920s most parents were being guided by the Plunket ...

Cathedral Square, Christchurch

1900s

Electric trams had been introduced and the hansom cabs were ...

A returned soldier in a motorcycle sidecar taking food to patients during the 1918 influenza epidemic

1918

"An epidemic of influenza has been raging throughout New Zealand ...

Bank of New Zealand building, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, 1929

1867

This was Exhibit J in a successful action in the Court of Appeal ...

Godley statue, Cathedral Square, Christchurch

1901

View of the Royal Exchange with the Godley Statue in the ...

Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Circa 1906

This was Exhibit L in a successful action in the Court of Appeal ...

A Kitson steam tram runs past the Government Buildings

1927

As at 2003 the Tramway Historical Society at Ferrymead holds the ...

The Post Office, Cathedral Square, Christchurch

1906

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