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Roving Camera
Good progress is being made with the new nurses' home extensions at the Cook Hospital. Top photographs shows towering steel hoist by which concrete is taken to top floors.
Shows building from main driveway.
A severe loss was suffered by Mr H. F. Healey, a P. & T. employee, when the house which he had built almost to the wall-papering stage in Waiteata Road (off upper Fox Street) was gutted by fire. It was not insured and Mr Healey suffered the loss of his life savings.
Work progresses on new Matawhero bridge after flood set-back. This view shows progress with caissons on east bank.
"Was that a bite?" Maurice Callaghan, like so many Gisborne boys, finds fun and recreation fishing in the harbour.