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Object type:Image

Description: Each photo to be scanned and catalogued separately.

The photograph album of the Jubilee features events and activities of the Jubilee, with a card insert giving the names of the Central Committee.

The Levin Borough Golden Jubilee Collection contains records, programmes, memorabilia, photographs and a scrapbook created by the Golden Jubilee Committee for the celebrations 3rd to 10th March 1956.

The records contain Jubilee Committee minutes, ephemera and memorabilia such as souvenir programmes, registration forms, tickets and pass cards, a song sheet, metal badges, a felt pendant, a balloon (not intact), and many different printed coloured ribbons for officials and attendees. There is also a large newspaper cuttings scrapbook, labelled on cover “A. H. Edwards, Secretary”.

There is also correspondence from Alfred J Edwards Jubilee Committee Secretary 29 July 1968 re donation of material to Town Clerk, and then 1980 correspondence about their deposit with the HHS. Note: The accession register refers only to photograph album, no other records.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”