Written on mounting board beside photo with black ink pen: Mr E. Butt 2nd Mayor Mrs Butt & Family”
Written on cardboard wallet below photo with black ballpoint pen: “Molly or Dorothy Ned Butt Queen (Shaw) Ernest”
Written on cardboard wallet below photo with blue ballpoint pen: “Please return to : Mrs CW. Shirriffs Longburn Phone. 82911 -P.Nth.”
Written on back of cardboard wallet with black ink pen: “J. Hallam J. T. Bovis”
Butt family, Shannon. In this photograph Queenie Butt (nee Shaw) and her husband Edwin (Ernest) stand behind a wooden fence. Their four children atand and sit in front of the fence. They are not positively identified but their names could be Molly, Dorothy and Ned. The second son has not been named.
The book “From Bush & Swamp”, identifies the second Mayor of Shannon as Edwin Joseph Butt, 1926-41.
1 B&W photo print, mounted (in cardboard wallet)
See also – s2002.050.0008a (2 enlarged copies)
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”
