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Description

Cosmopolitan club is older than borough:

Liquor licensing legislation which restricted Levin to a meagre three hotels was also responsible for the beginnings of the town's Cosmopolitan Club, started in June 1900 as the Horowhenua County Club.

Left:
A sporting Humber and two early motor bikes on the road probably in the Avenue, about the early 1920s. Stan Brewster is riding the bike nearest the car.

Contains:

Cosmopolitan Club
Horowhenua County Club
Mr D. Hannan
Mr Kebbell
Mr E. J Pendergast
Levin Workingmen's Club
Dalgety New Zealand Ltd
Mr J. Parsons
Mr P. Curtis
Mr D. C. Stewart
Mr A. H. Hoult
Mr Kevin Fleming
Lawton Carkeek
Mr John Parsons
Mr Graeme McKenzie

X-Rays in 1959:

Levin's first private X-ray machine was one of the oldest units still operating in New Zealand when it was used for the last time in February 1974.

Contains:

Dr D. W. Urguhart
Horowhenua Hospital
Queen St Medical Centre
Mr J. Cummings

Identification

Date

March 1981