Slide, Dredge, Tauranga Harbour
Maker
Robert Gale
Production date
01 Mar 1968
Current rights
© In copyright
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Object detail
Description
A colour slide showing a dredge in the Tauranga harbour. The Mount Wharf is visible in the background. Recorded by the photographer as ‘Tauranga Harbour. Dredge’. "With the tonnage of cargo passing through the Port of Tauranga showing an increase of almost 50 per cent for the six months ending March, compared with the same period last year, things are really beginning to hum along the waterfront and recent activities have aroused more than casual interest. The dredge, operated by an Australian company, has already become a familiar figure on the nautical landscape. Busily engaged in deepening and straightening the cutter channel, the dredge will eventually make it possible for vessels of greater length and draught to enter the harbour, avoiding tortuous bends which have to be negotiated at present." 4 May 1968, Bay of Plenty Photo News
The Tauranga Heritage Collection has more than 2000 photographic slides taken by Robert Gale. Robert and his family moved to Tauranga in the early 1960s and he taught at Merivale School until retirement. Robert was a member of the Tauranga Photographic Society for many years. We ask that you publish an acknowledgement, or 'attribution', to Robert Gale when using this image.
The Tauranga Heritage Collection has more than 2000 photographic slides taken by Robert Gale. Robert and his family moved to Tauranga in the early 1960s and he taught at Merivale School until retirement. Robert was a member of the Tauranga Photographic Society for many years. We ask that you publish an acknowledgement, or 'attribution', to Robert Gale when using this image.
Maker
Robert Gale
Production date
01 Mar 1968
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Measurements
50mm (width), 50mm (height)
Credit line
Gifted by the Gale family and Alf Rendell
Accession number
0005/20/934
Current rights