Story: Streets and lighting

Smoko (3rd of 3)

Smoko

Whanganui street workers take a smoko break around 1900.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Edith Williams Collection
Reference: 1/1-024403; G
Photograph by Edith Emily Williams

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Adrian Humphris, 'Streets and lighting - Street construction and surfaces', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/24485/smoko (accessed 3 June 2023)

Story by Adrian Humphris, published 11 Mar 2010