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Kōrero: Factory industries

Hillside foundry

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Hillside foundry

Workers in Dunedin’s Hillside railway workshop's foundry are shown about 1926. The man in a suit (third from right) is the supervisor, S. H. Wellington. At Hillside, while the supervisor dealt with paperwork, the leading hand was generally left to directly supervise workers. 

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-0938-1/2-G

by Albert Percy Godber

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ian Hunter, Factory industries – Gathering strength, 1900 to 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25566/hillside-foundry (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian Hunter, i tāngia i te 1 March 2010.