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Roving Camera
Since its construction, Monk Bros' mobile crane has handled a variety of unusual jobs, but perhaps the most unusual would be the one pictured.....the lifting of a new carpet for the upstairs dining-room of the Masonic Hotel, which was too big and bulky to be manhandled up the stairs or carried in the lift.
While an Oswald Street resident was honeymooning recently, humorous friends gave his home the treatment with placards and drawings.
A new boiler, weighing 20 tons 4 cwt, which was railed to Gisborne for installation in the Kaiti Freezing Works, being unloaded outside the works by a railway steam crane.