Roadways D9 and Euclid C6 at Knights Point.

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DescriptionRoadways D9 and Euclid C6 at Knights Point.

Shared with permission from Haast Road Opening 50th Anniversary.PhotographerM E RobertsDate of Photo1960-1965Map^[1]ContributorMaye Dunn

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Location (city or town)Knights PointOrganisation (eg business)Roadways D9 and Euclid C6

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Date Created26th November 2019CommentsPaulAnthony Teens: Over the side it went. Now????

Rollo Tomasi: Safety was not a high priority then , no roll cages.

Stuart Mahon: How did they build that road without hiviz?
Or were they trying to hide from the greenies.

Donald Levy: Try and build anything today it will not get past the pen pushers

Ian Schroder: Hi viz today is just a joke as people not working wear it like everday wear

Myron Caldwell: Ian Schroder. I am really pissed off that I didn't design 'hi-vis' or those zillion cones they use along all the roads of the world. Hell, I could have made enough money to buy a house at Junction, eh?

Christine Hoets: Oh that’s so funny about hi viz , yes and look at the fantastic roads that were built , back in our Awesome good old days , loved my kid days growing up at home back then ,wish it was still the same , so many more happy people then , because we had nothing, other than each other ,

Maurice Bettridge If I remember, knights point was named after some ones dog . Can some one correct me on that , if I am wrong.

Maurice Bettridge: Did the road just after it opened in my 1952 Chevrolet.

Charlie Blanchett: Knights point was named after the engineers dog it was a black Labrador

Kevin Voigt: The dogs name was knight was owned buy the engineer mow.

Kevin Voigt: Well that confirm s that.

Kevin Voigt: Don't need hi visit to push shit.

Jessie Thompson We went to the opening day. There was a chopping meeting to mark the occasion.. it poured with horizontal rain. The road was closed. W3 couldn’t get out..some people went home in the other direction..memories.

Yvonne Lawson My bro in law Gary Lawson worked there and drove a Euclid

Andy Grigg First suggestion was 'Pooch Point' as the roadline looked like a dog's head, but Knight's Point won out! Norm George, a surveyor was his owner, from memory.

Murray Petrie
I don't think you can see any river valleys from Knights Point

Aidan Apperley Mahuika
Murray Petrie that's a funny looking river valley lol looks like the sea to me

James Codyre
That is real "Sandfly Country"?One of the dozer drivers told me the only way he could tell the difference between choppers and sandflies was the numbers on choppers.

Alan Mitchell
No hard hats or high vis shirts back then the work got done with no fuss and and bull shit that we have to put up with now. Plus no room for yellow cones in the mud.

Phil Wright
All running Skellerup cabs back then,not that it rains much eh!!

Rob Lunn
You forgot to mention that they shifted a lot of earth before the excavator came on the scene

Russell Ferguson
Believe my late father, Gordon, worked on that road/area

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Roadways D9 and Euclid C6 at Knights Point.

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