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In the picture above, the camera is looking straight down for 400 feet, from the top of the big chimney being built at the oil-fired power station near Marsden Point, Whangarei. This must he easily the greatest vertical drop in the country. It looks down on matchbox-like buildings which are themselves of massive construction.

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Machines working near the water's edge at Bream Bay look like toys from the top of the stack. Below, right: The top section of the chimney, showing the steel framework above which the boxing former is raised in stages.