Dora Adkin and Ron Law sitting on motorbike on beach with boys on horses in background.
Photographed Wednesday December 26 1917 at Hokio Beach.
From Te Papa Collection:
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=123403
Built in 1917, designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere.
Located at 108 Arapaepae Road, Levin.
Head and shoulders portrait of George Hughes, 22 Reinforcement NZEF, 1917.
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Studio photograph of a soldier sent as a postcard. Inscription on reverse reads “France May 15 1917 To Dear Elsie love from Clarrie”
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Page 4 – Shannon School – 3 b/w photos
Top to bottom - a) ‘Shannon Public School. 5182 Wilson photos’, 1917 or 1921. {copy} Amount and type of building material indicates recent construction. The building as shown had final additions completed in 1917. The new Infant ‘School’ was constructed in 1921 some distance to the right of this building. Used in book – “Shannon School Centennial Souvenir 1989”, page 9, with caption - Shannon School between 1921 and 1930.
b) Mr Bill Rowling and Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan visit Shannon School, 22 March 1978. {original} Mr Rowling was Leader of the Opposition and Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan was M.P. (Southern Maori) at this time.
c) Pupils of 1940-1944 at 85th Jubilee, Shannon School, June 1974. {original} Used in booklet – “Combined Jubilee 1974 – Shannon School & Shannon Rugby Football Club”, page 56.
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Penciled on back: “Miss Jessie McKegg, 1917 Patriotic Queen Carnival.”
Miss Jessie McKegg, and two unidentified children dressed in period costume at the Patriotic Queen Carnival, 1917.
1 B&W photo print
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dis 7.00. ?Yorsten Swamp Manager
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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Gale & Flood, 1917, Shannon.”
The road and railway line between Shannon and the Opiki turn-off after the gale and flood in Shannon in 1917. Taken from the highway this photograph looks south showing telegraph poles which have been blown to one side in the gale
1 B&W photo print
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