The left wing of the new Ross Home complex was rapidly taking shape in April 1986. Lifting a prefabricated roof truss were German labourers Hermann Jentsch (left) and Nikolaus d. Erste who, wearing...
A crowd of about 2000 farmers and rural businessmen gathered at the South Otago A&P Society grounds inn Balclutha in March 1986 to show community unity in protesting government policies.
Only a few kilometres away from ending a two-day mystery tramp in 1986 are Milton scouts Clynt McGregor, Peter Dickinson, Bryan Forde, Craig Wells, Gavin Smith and Jason Altenburg.
St Kilda has its first full banking service in the borough’s 110-year history, the mayor, Mr I.J. Lawson, said at the opening of the Trusteebank Otago branch in St Kilda in 1986.
Standing beside State Highway 8 at the bottom of the Fruitlands straight, the Cap Broome Hotel is perhaps the most photographed building in Central Otago.
Three tunnels in the bank beside Shore St were expected to be of special interest to a group of Māori from Taranaki who arrived in Dunedin on Saturday, November 9, 1985.
The modelling and deportment club at Tahuna Intermediate had a treat during a Wednesday club afternoon in 1985 when Miss Otago, Leanne McDonnell, arrived at the school