Story: Wellington places
An aerial view of Eastern Porirua in the late 1950s highlights the ‘cut and fill’ technique of land development. Hills were topped or levelled and spill was used to fill gullies, making the once rugged landscape more rolling.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP-1976/3091
Photograph by Ian Chappell Mackley
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.