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Derek Johnson
5 April, 2013
St Vincent de Paul Society’s Wellington headquarters in Ozanam House Newtown needed part of a wall removed so that the old altar-bread making machines could be removed.
The new machinery arrived from Papini Officina in Italy on 27 March and needed to be hoisted through the hole.
Top, manager John Rossbotham waits with a worker outside the specially cut hole in the wall for the first of the machine (bottom) to be lifted up.
Once all the machines were in place, the old machines were loaded onto the truck for removal as scrap.
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