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On the job looking over the ground at the site of the new Matawhero highway bridge over the Waipaoa are the Rope Construction Company's J. ("Mac") McCorkindale, bridge foreman, and W. Parker, engineer for the company.

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One of the first essentials for the new State Housing block in Mangapapa is electric power. Here Power Board workmen are shown erecting a transformer platform in a new street.

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Sheep being driven along the Matawhero highway towards the sale yards are indicative of the present high state of prosperity on the East Coast, which has one of the most dense sheep populations in the country. Droving in this case is being done from motorcar, a practice which recently came under fire from one of New Zealand's stipendiary magistrates.