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Fire at the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd on 16 November 1933. Bystanders are watching smoke billow out of the building, while a man has climbed to the top of the pole on the left hand side of the photograph.

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A horse and cart being used by a number of men who are clearing a sandhill for the Woolpack and Textiles factory site 1933.

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Framework of Woolpack and Textiles factory building, 1933

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory. This photograph shows the framework of the main building with a private residence in Watson Street in the background.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory. This photograph shows a long narrow pad which will eventually become the floor area of the main building. In the background is the Manawatu River.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory 1933. This photograph shows the outside wall frames of the main building.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory 1933. The building in the centre of the photograph is finished but is unpainted.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory 1933. This photograph shows a large concrete pad which will eventually become the floor of the main building. The Manawatu River is in the background of this photograph.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory. This photograph shows a long narrow pad which will eventually be the floor of the main building, with a house in Watson Street in the background.

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Site preparation for Woolpack and Textiles factory. This photograph shows the frame of the building. To the right of the photograph is a private dwelling.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory 1933. The building in the foreground is in the process of having its roof removed. In the centre of the photograph is the large concrete pad which will eventually become the floor of the main building. In the background is the house belonging to the Gilmore family.

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Construction of Woolpack and Textiles factory 1933. This photograph shows the first stages of framing being erected on the large concrete pad. In the background is the west side of the loop in the Manawatu River.

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Site preparation for Woolpack and Textiles factory. This photograph taken from the railway shows the frame of the building.

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Site preparation for woolpack and textiles factory, Foxton. This photograph shows a number of children watching sandhill being demolished.

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Site preparation for Woolpack and Textiles factory. A sandhill with large marcocarpa trees on top in the centre of the photograph has been half demolished.

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Partly constructed Woolpack and Textiles building, taken from the railway, 1933.

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