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Written with ballpoint pen on yellow paper attached to back: “Approximately 1932. Levin Water Scheme workers who built stone embankments to [?] Ohau River, washed away after 6 months. Bob Williams father was Borough Water Supervisor in [the ?] centre, others are Depression workers.”

Written on back of lamination with blue ballpoint pen; “Levin Borough. P.M. [?] Williams, R.D. 20 Ohau, Levin.”

Levin Water Scheme workers (group photo), c.1932. Twenty unidentified men sitting on the wire-wrapped stone embankment that they have been constructing.

1 B&W photo print, copy, laminated

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”

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