Skip to Content
Description

Written on back with black ballpoint pen - Back. Mr Speirs Mr Aimes - Mr Blackwood, Bob Neill, Mr Spencer, Mr Owen - Ron Law Front. - Mr Franks Gordon Mitchell, Mr Bill Brown,

Woman and 12 men at Mangahao Dam, 1924 1 B&W photo print

Taken during opening of Mangahao Power Station ? Left to Right - Back Row: Claude Speirs (flaxmill owner), Mrs Claude Spiers [previously unidentified woman (Mrs Blackwood ?)], James Aim (dairy factory manager), Arch Blackwood (superintendent of Mangaore Powerhouse), Robert Neill, Mr E.J.S. Spencer (builder), Mr Owen, unidentified man, Ron Law (farmer).

Front Row: unidentified man, Mr C.C. Franks (cartage contractor), Gordon Mitchell (farmer), Bill Brown (railway ganger).

Men could be members of Mangahao Lodge.

Appears to have been removed from a photo album.

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

Identification

Related items

Members of Brown family and others on car, 4 a.m. New Year's morning, 1920's ?
Bill Brown with 4 men near Shannon Railway Station, 1924
Members of Brown family and others at Brown's gate, early 1930's (?)
Farewell to troops for the Boer War at Shannon Station, c.1900
Farewell to troops for the Boer War at Shannon Station, c.1900
Page 13 - Shannon Railway - 8 b/w photos
Shannon Borough Councillors, 1927 - 1929
The six Brown girls, mid 1920's
Miss Eason and Brown family
Opening of Presbyterian Manse, 60 Clapham St., Shannon, 1911
Plimmer Terrace looking south, 1924
First bridge over Manawatu River at Shannon, 1908 to 1924

Taxonomy

Tags
1924,
arch blackwood,
c.c. franks,
claude speirs,
e.j.s. spencer,
gordon mitchell,
james aim,
owen,
robert neill,
ron j. law,
shannon,
shannon centennial collection,
william brown,
Community Tags

Report a problem

Related items

Members of Brown family and others on car, 4 a.m. New Year's morning, 1920's ?
Bill Brown with 4 men near Shannon Railway Station, 1924
Members of Brown family and others at Brown's gate, early 1930's (?)
Farewell to troops for the Boer War at Shannon Station, c.1900
Farewell to troops for the Boer War at Shannon Station, c.1900
Page 13 - Shannon Railway - 8 b/w photos
Shannon Borough Councillors, 1927 - 1929
The six Brown girls, mid 1920's
Miss Eason and Brown family
Opening of Presbyterian Manse, 60 Clapham St., Shannon, 1911
Plimmer Terrace looking south, 1924
First bridge over Manawatu River at Shannon, 1908 to 1924