Page 108 - Volume 1

An awkward dip and curve in Kimihia Road, 400 yards east of the Russell Road intersection, being
straightened out with heavy machinery from Downer & Company, who also had the contract for running
Kimihia opencast mine. The road correction was to facilitate easier travel by the trucks carrying coal from
the mine, eliminating a particularly nasty small hill.

The Kimihia Road correction with the earth movement nearly completed and awaiting metal. The Yates
farm is at the top right of the photo. At some time in the future a concrete water supply reservoir was placed
on the hill in the distance to supply the increase in residential buildings. The road was originally constructed to
service the underground mine in the early 1900s and later the farms that were developed by some of the

miners.