dis 7.00/Miranui flaxmill north of Shannon/

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Written on back of both copies with blue ballpoint pen - Cook house & Billiard room & Mens Living quarters. The office was where there is now a house. Miranui Mill.

Stamped on back of both copies with dark purple ink - Reproduction Peter Sinclair Photos Shannon

Stamped on back of one copy with purple ink - Shannon Centennial 1887 – 1987

Miranui Mill – cookhouse, billiard room & men’s living quarters, 1920’s 1 B&W photo print, copy (plus additional copy)

Car (left), 5 buildings (right), 2 women & 2 children (right), 3 men (centre) standing in road.

Used in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 101, with caption - This neat little village scene of the 1920’s is the Miranui Mill’s cook house, billiard room and men’s living quarters.

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Information on back of original photograph - Tunnel top picture these join up and phew to the top of the hill

View of bush covered hills, Mangahao, 1920’s

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Mangahao Dam with its stormwater gap viewed from upstream, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - In the gorge dirency sheet piling with air hammer 26 cut. Looking up gorge.

Building temporary coffer dam with sheet piling, Mangahao, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - Bottom camp the big tent is the YMCA and insured for 300 pounds. It came from France

Bottom Camp (Arapeti ?), big tent building is the YMCA, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - Vvv

Toi Toi bush with its feathery plumes, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - Mangahao River

Mangahao River at one of the dam sites, 1920’s

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Buildings on plateau at horseshoe bend in river, 1920’s

Location not stated, believed related to hydro scheme.

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Aftermath of flood at Mangahao Dam, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - Babcock boiler being put up to drive air compressors for the tunnel. The boilers are 3

Babcock boiler being put up to drive air compressors for tunnel, 1920’s

Appears to be on ridge at Surge Chamber above the Powerhouse.

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Information on back of original photograph - 1920 surveyors no 2 dam

Surveyors at No.2 Dam site, Mangahao, 1920

Man at left is pouring water from rain gauge into measuring cylinder.

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Information on back of original photograph - Shannon railway Station

Rail wagons at Shannon loaded with material & equipment for Hydro Scheme, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - No 1 dam.

Mangahao River in flood at No.1 Dam site, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - My no 1 damn home. IMM

Accommodation huts at No.1 Dam, Mangahao, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - 1920 Smithy at work No 3 dam

Blacksmith (unidentified) working at No.3 Dam, Mangahao, 1920

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Information on back of original photograph - 4/2/21 Looking down {? incoreectly recorded, may belong to image #.0033}

Looking across the reservoir of the completed and filled dam, Mangahao, 1920’s

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Information on back of original photograph - 7/07/27 {? incoreectly recorded, may belong to image #.0029}

Looking down to one of the dams, Mangahao, 1920’s

Used in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 111 with caption: Costruction at one of the dam sites. Although highly mechanised for those times, much of the labour was still manual, not made any easier by the rugged conditions and isolation.

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Information on back of original photograph - Jacking round the hairpin bend 1920

“Boiler” and team of horses ‘jacking round’ hairpin bend, Mangahao, 1920

Another view of the boiler from the dismantled steam engine being moved to new location.

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Information on back of original photograph - 1920 Boiler on way to No 3 dam.

“Boiler” being pulled by team of horses to No.3 Dam, Mangahao, 1920

This is the boiler for steam engine in photo .0016 The engine has been dismantled to reduce the weight the horses have to pull.

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Information on back of original photograph - 1920 Boiler at No 3.

“Boiler” at No.3 Dam site, Mangahao, 1920

Mobile steam engine mounted on wheels allowing it to be towed from site to site. Belt from fly-wheel is operating equipment out of picture at right. The equipment at left appear to be winch drums (similar winch drums for log hauling are clearly shown in image #.0142).

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Information on back of original photograph - Engine stoila horse, Bath house, and room for drying wet clothes and locomotive shed

Engine house at bottom of Jig-line, Mangahao, 1920’s

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Black and white photocopy.

Edgar Cowley’s Paint Shop in Main Street Foxton. This was the northern most shop on the western side of Main Street..

This photograph was taken before the shopfront was altered. Shop now extends to the brickwall, with a door in the alleyway. Top rooms have been cut into halves, so that top facade is now level with upper window on the front left.

The original of this photograph is held by Kevin Anderson, Norbition Road.

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Information on back of original photograph - First peep at the river

Mangahao River, 1920’s

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Written on back with black ballpoint pen - No. 23. This is how they did it then! Construction of power lines Tokomaru ? Tom Sunley near center without hat. Shirley Tremewan

Raising power poles, Tokomaru ? c.1920’s-30’s 1 B&W photo print

Two large wooden poles joined together at top in ‘A’ shape with cross members for wires being raised by hand. 3 men (right) each with a long pole push the top of the power pole into upright position while other men (centre) near its base use short posts to prop it up as it rises. Tom Sunley believed to be one of the workers (centre).

Large farm house in background (right).

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laminated copy of “Flax Mill, Foxton. Three people on road at front and view stretches north to commercial are and along port area.

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Typed on piece of paper glued to back - Car owned & driven by Dave Foster crossing the Hokio Stream 1920-1929. New Beauty Ford. (copied from photo owned)

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date. Note attached to reverse: “Car owned & driven by Dave Foster crossing the Hokio Stream 1920 – 1929. New Beauty Ford. (Copied from photo owned),”

New Beauty Ford car owned and driven by Dave Foster, fording across Hokio Stream, downstream from the footbridge at Hokio Beach in the 1920’s.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with #.0050b)

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 18”

Penciled on back: “P18 King’s Theatre, Oxford Street, Levin. A few doors north of Chronicle office. G.L. Adkin photograph.”

Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Horowhenua Historical Society. “

A night photograph showing the King’s Theatre and John Milnes’ Levin Motor Garage, Oxford St., Levin. Situated a little north of the Chronicle office The King’s Theatre had previously been known as the Cosmos Theatre. The King’s Theatre also served as a skating rink.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Dis 7.00/dredge Hennessay moored upstream of Foxton wharf/

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 113”

Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “P. 113. Four men at working face in No. 2 tunnel. Nine men were killed in this tunnel, seven at one time by foul air. P.N.P.L.”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “Four men at working face in No. 2 tunnel. Nine men were killed in this tunnel, seven of them in a single incident when ventilation system broke down. G.L. Adkin photo (P.Nth. Pub. Lib. Collection. MGH 205)”

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 280, with caption - Workers in No. 2 tunnel at head of pipeline. Nine men died here, seven in a single tragic occurrance of foul air. PNPL.

Four unidentified men working at the face in the No. 2 tunnel, Mangahao, 1920’s. Nine men were killed during the construction of this tunnel, seven of them in a single incident when the ventilation system broke down.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 280

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