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Story: Rural workers

Roadmen

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Roadmen

Taranaki road workers stop and pose for the camera, around 1910. Known as Turnbull’s Gang, they were building a road using shovels, picks and a wheelbarrow.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, James McAllister Collection (PAColl-3054)

Reference: 1/2-021078; C

by James McAllister

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – On the road, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17215/roadmen (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.