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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Donated by Joice Forster, 41 Liverpool St., Levin. Dec. 1994 F.C.S.Given to her by Prouse. “Weraroa House” site now. Was about in line with railway station.” and “Said by Winton Parker (Prouse decendant) built to same plan as Ashlea House, Queen St. East, formerly occupied by Lou Prouse, now by his son. A third original Prouse brother said to have built a house in Wellington to same plan. He ran a timber yard & moulding factory in Wellington. Weraroa House built 1891 or 92 for Richard Prouse, saw-miller with sawmill where Horowhenua Energy sub-station is now. Prouse Bros. sawmill built c.1891-1907.”

“Penciled bottom left corner – J. Rogers Photo.”

The home of Richard Prouse, (sawmiller), later called “Weraroa House”, at Weraroa. The two storied wooden house, with an iron roof, two brick chimneys, sash windows, a bay window on the lower floor at the front of the house, a balcony on the upper floor above a verandah on the lower floor, was built in 1891 or 1892. The house was situated directly to the east of the Levin Railway Station at Weraroa.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

See also 2000.073.0001

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

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