The condition of many early streets was primitive. They were dust bowls in summer and quagmires in winter. This is Auckland’s Queen Street in the 1860s. It was bisected by a stream called the Ligar Canal – formerly Te Wai Horotiu. It was little more than an open sewer, and a hazard for the unwary pedestrian.
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Photograph by James D. Richardson
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