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Selwyn Photograph collection

This is a collection of photographs of the Selwyn district from the Weekly press and the Canterbury times between the 1860s and the 1920s. They have been produced as a joint project between Selwyn District Council and Christchurch City Libraries. They were photographed from the newspapers by Stephen Wright.

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T. Kimber, winner. T. Kimber won with 51 birds out of 63.	The engine drawing two four-furrow disc ploughs in bad twitch land - ploughing over six inches in depth.	Coming up from the mouth of the river.
Dragging for the necessary ‘bully’.	Probably a ‘fish’ yarn.	On the route of the Midland Railway: looking out of the Arthur’s Pass Tunnel, Otira.
On the route of the Midland Railway: Fraser’s Bridge, Sloven’s Creek.	On the route of the Midland Railway: the gantry at the tip head near the tunnel mouth, Otira.	On the route of the Midland Railway: the Otira Post Office.
The result of a day’s shooting. The above shows the work of eleven guns on the Heslerton Estate on Good Friday.	Threshing out a heavy crop of wheat near Christchurch	A temporary bridge at Bealey Flat at the Canterbury end of Arthur’s Pass tunnel.
At Holt’s Creek: the pipes at Otira used for water power.	The Golden wedding of Mr and Mrs W. Fussell, at Tai Tapu, Canterbury: a family group.	Arthur’s Pass West Coast Road.

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