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Inscription below photograph on mounting reads: “Foxton Heads 1908. Stump in Manawatu River Xmas 1908 Picnic Party”

Inscription on reverse reads: “E Healey Foxton Chemist Dr G Adams Fred Woods Officer in Charge Police at Foxton D Clements Post Master Foxton – Totara stump 20 ft girth at (illegible) near stump – Xmas 1908 -

Presented by Ian J Fawcett 1982

A group of people pose on a large tree stump in the Manawatu River at the Foxton Heads during the Christmas Picnic Party of 1908. Notes on reverse indicate E. Healey, Dr G Adams, Fred Woods, and D Clement are among those in the group.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

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