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The construction of the Wellington (or Foothills) motorway through Thorndon in the late 1960s caused considerable public protest, not least because its route went through the city’s oldest European cemetery. Protesters appealed to the Wellington City Council to stop the scheme, but the council came down on the side of the planners, and the motorway went ahead – a decision satirised in this 1965 cartoon.
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Reference: B-133-312
by Nevile Lodge
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