Parade to support wounded soldiers c.1915. This photograph shows cars with placards outside the Foxton Coronation Hall. The Manawatu Hotel can be seen in the background at the left.
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Leslie Ransom (as toddler), 1915-16
Son of Roland (“Jim”) Ransom.
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Written on back – Leslie Ransom
Leslie Ransom (as toddler), 1915-16
Son of Roland (“Jim”) Ransom.
Cut from photo postcard.
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“This would have been quite good if I hadn’t opened my mouth so wide, but it was a joke. We are out by the back door with the big cream rose as a back ground. —-—— Mrs Hannah Dunckley”
See Acc#s20004.002.0010 photocopy of original with details.
Three Dunckley women in garden, c.1920
Woman at left believed to be Mrs Hannah Dunckley. The young women would probably be her daughters – “Flo” and “May”.
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Inscription on back of original photograph reads: “Patriotic Queen Carnival 1915 Bertha Gower Queen”
Inscription on reverse of print reads: “Queen Carnival, Foxton 1912 Negative Palmerston North Library.”
Queen Carnival Parade of 1915 in Main Street, Foxton moving north. A brass band is leading the parade and is passing the Police Station. A squad of cadets with rifles on their shoulders follows behind the band. Bertha Gower was Queen of the Carnival
Original photograph plus one 10” x 6” print.
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Information on back of original photograph - Sealey Camp 1916
Sealy Camp, survey party, 1915
Information on page 105 in book “From Bush & Swamp”, reads: Four years passed before another survey party, led by engineer C. Sealy, went into the ranges, where they spent six months of 1915 working in rugged conditions, unseen men toiling in the wilderness, but they emerged with a practicable scheme in mind. They proposed to trap the waters of the Mangahao, which flows from a high gorge to the north, behind two dams and then send the water under two ridges by tunnels, each over a mile long. The water would then drop from a controlling surge chamber through pipelines for 900 feet to a power station at Mangaore. This fall, five times higher than the Niagara Falls, would provide the extreme pressure required at the base of the pipeline to generate the power.
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Levin School, class P2&3, 1915
Roy Cole in 2nd row, 2nd from left.
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