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Olga Sansom wrote about her areas of interest in radio broadcasts, book reviews, published books and articles and in answering the many inquiries that came to her.

Shows the concrete Mount Bruce bridge shortly after its construction, looking upstream from the bed of the Ruamahanga River

In 1863 Thomas W. Kempthorne and Evan Prosser went into business together as chemists and suppliers of medicine.

Shows the original Mount Bruce suspension bridge over the Ruamahanga River, looking up from the river bed

Shows a car crossing the Mount Bruce suspension bridge, over the Ruamahanga River

The Otago Provincial Government (established 1852) took control of the management of all harbours in the province in 1853. A Jetty Committee was established in 1854.

European settlement began at Queenstown in 1860, when William Gilbert Rees made the site of the future town the homestead for his sheep station.

Edward Fletcher Roberts was a prominent consulting civil engineer in Otago for many years.

Henry Selfe was born in 1810 near Worcester and was educated at Glasgow University.