From a much different time when children actually rode bicycles to school rather than be chauffeured by parents and when bike safety inspections were the order of the day in schools, comes a Monkey Tale (1952) filmed by the National Film Unit for the Ministry of Transport, starring Show Off Charlie.
View here. Courtesy of NZ On Screen.
What an utter Charlie.
Today, with the road safety problem long since resolved, Charlie would be.... well, a boy racer.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Misadventure By Automobile - Perrett's Corner circa 1928
Evening Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
Misadventure by horseless carriage at Perrett's corner, circa 1928. The wreckage is at the Willis Street - Boulcott street corner with Perrett's corner the spot at which the photographer is positioned. One wonders what other tangles have occurred at this busy intersection between pedestrians, horse & cart, trams, cars, trucks, and buses.
The Old Identities Hotel, now the Albert Hotel, is lit up. In May 1929 it is demolished to make way for the new Hotel St George completed in 1931. The figures of the Old Identities of Wellington may be seen above the doors and windows.
Note the bricked or cobbled street that has replaced the dirt surface from the early 1900s.
Misadventure by horseless carriage at Perrett's corner, circa 1928. The wreckage is at the Willis Street - Boulcott street corner with Perrett's corner the spot at which the photographer is positioned. One wonders what other tangles have occurred at this busy intersection between pedestrians, horse & cart, trams, cars, trucks, and buses.
The Old Identities Hotel, now the Albert Hotel, is lit up. In May 1929 it is demolished to make way for the new Hotel St George completed in 1931. The figures of the Old Identities of Wellington may be seen above the doors and windows.
Note the bricked or cobbled street that has replaced the dirt surface from the early 1900s.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
I Ain't Sniffing, I Ain't Tripping...
KELLY HODEL/Waikato Times
A semi & trailer carrying a load of Bostick adhesive glue between Auckland and Wellington rolled on State Highway 39 near Ngahinapouri about 5.30am Friday morning (NZT). The highway was closed for 8 hours while mopping up operations were undertaken.
The driver escaped serious injury. No word yet whether s/he passed the drug test...
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