Panmure Stories: Mayor Harry Bean - Transport

Kia ora listeners, you have tuned into Auckland Libraries Heritage Podcast - Panmure Stories! In this track, Mt Wellington Borough Council Mayor Harry Bean, talks about transport routes, proposed motorways, and investing in the railroad system. Reference Harry Bean, 1982 https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/2407/rec/2 Original interviews were recorded by Richard Baker, commissioned by Mt Wellington Public Library in 1982. The project captured recollections of life, work and play from the early 1900s across the changing landscapes of the decades that followed. They offer us a unique and personal insight into Panmure of the past. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/2874/rec/1 Image: James D. Richardson. Looking south east from Maungarei / Mount Wellington showing part of the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway (right) and the Panmure Basin and Tāmaki River (distance), 3 September 1921. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, 4-4062. https://digitalnz.org/records/30056225/looking-south-east-from-mount-wellington-showing-part-of-the Curated by Renee Orr and Zoe Colling from Auckland Libraries Heritage Engagement team, with Sound production by Sue Berman (April 2021)