Using the National Library 2

Using the National Library

2. Newspapers

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ resource

Use this link to open the National Library website

Enter Panmure Bridge 1865  into the search box

Open the Southern star newspaper article named - Laying the cornerstone.

What event is this article about?

This is about laying the last cornerstone

What makes it different to a newspaper story today?

The language and picture.

Copy and paste a definition of these words, and then use the word in a sentence that shows you know what it means:

proceedings - a particular action or course or manner of action.

necessitated - to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.

procured - to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.

masonry - stonework

appurtenances - something subordinate to another, more important thing; adjunct; accessory.

objectionable - causing or tending to cause an objection, disapproval, or protest.

Sentence - Masonry - "cracks in the finished masonry"

Take this one sentence from the article and rewrite, and repunctuate it so that it makes more sense to a modern reader.

We may here observe that the piles which are driven into the ground with remarkable accuracy as to straightness, are well sheathed, from the bed of the river to the high water mark, with metal, securely fastened, so as to guard the bottom portions of the piles from the ravages of the worm.

My version:

We may observe that the piles are driven into the ground, with remarkable accuracy as to straightness, are well sheathed from the bed of the river to the high water mark, with metal, securely fastened. So as to guard the bottom portions of the piles from the ravages of the worm.

Copy and paste the acknowledgement from the site here

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DSC18651023.2.18