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Information on back of original photograph - 7/07/27 {? incoreectly recorded, may belong to image #.0029}

Looking down to one of the dams, Mangahao, 1920’s

Used in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 111 with caption: Costruction at one of the dam sites. Although highly mechanised for those times, much of the labour was still manual, not made any easier by the rugged conditions and isolation.

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