A 67-kilometre-long race, begun in 1937, diverts water from the Rangitata River to irrigate 66,000 hectares of farmland. Designed by …
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Ever since it opened on 25 March 1939, the Rakaia River Bridge (State Highway 1) has retained its title as …
Throughout the terrible winter of 1865, labourers began cutting a coach road from Christchurch through the Otira Gorge and over …
The New Zealand Steel Slurry Pipeline was an innovative step in slurry pumping technology. Built in 1986, it was the …
The production of steel from titanomagnetite sand had never been achieved before, and this plant at Glenbrook, South Auckland, is …
Prior to 1877, the citizens of Auckland had very inadequate water supplies and suffered huge losses from major fires in …
The Vacreator was invented in New Zealand by H. Lamont Murray. The initial development began in 1923 when Murray and …
Located by an unusually consistent reserve of high-grade limestone, the cement works at Portland (near Whangarei) is the largest and …
Built for the New Zealand Express Company Limited in Dunedin and opened in 1908, this is an early multi-storey building …
When it was completed in 1972, the New Plymouth Power Station Chimney was the tallest structure in New Zealand.
The Maitai Valley Water Supply Scheme, opened in 1987, initially supplied 65 per cent of Nelson City’s water. A major …
The first Newmarket Viaduct, constructed between 1962 and 1966, was a vital link near the start of Auckland’s Southern Motorway …
The Mahurangi Cement Works ruins, near Warkworth, was the site of New Zealand’s first Portland cement manufacturing in the 1880s.
This factory at Whareroa, three kilometres south of Hawera in South Taranaki, is the world's largest dairy processing complex on …
The Chelsea Sugar Refinery commenced operation in 1884 and is notable because it is still New Zealand’s only sugar works. …
