A slide depicting a traditional farming scene from New Zealand made in around the 1920s. Agriculture was a popular theme in New Zealand painting, photography and literature at the time. The fact that it formed the biggest part of our economy no doubt had something to do with this.

This slide was designed to be projected onto a wall using a 'magic lantern' projector. 

Rural scene between Levin and Shannon on the 2nd April 2000.

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Looking across ploughed fields to the Tararua foothills, from Rangitane Road, Opiki

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Ploughed fields at Tane Road, Opiki.

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Ploughed fields at Tane Road, Opiki. In the background are the Tararua Ranges.

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Twin lambs staying close to their mother in the fields in Tane Road, Opiki

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 88”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “Ploughing on W.G. Adkin’s property, ‘Cheslyn Rise’, probably about 1916. View looking south from terrace. Waiopehu Reserve in distance on left.”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date

Ploughing at Cheslyn Rise’, c.1916. A three horse team is being used to pull the plough. The two storied house in the backgroung (right) is ‘Cheslyn Rise’ the home of the Adkin family. The foothills of the Tararua Range are in the background.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Lunch time for lambs, Tane Road, Opiki.

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Ploughed fields on the north side of Waihou Road, Levin. In the background are the Tararua Ranges.

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One of 28 mounted photos – Produced for 50th Jubilee, Crop & Food Research, South Road, Manakau.

Crop and Food Research Photos: 1. John Parkin programming Hewlett Packard calculator for controlling factorial unit glasshouses.

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink – P 47

Written on back with black ballpoint pen - Levin Saleyards, sited on Queen Street West, north side, between Weraroa Road and Salisbury Street, between 1899 and 1927. Photograph : G.L. Adkin. Copied : J. Casey, VUW, June 1986, from D. Hodge album for A.J. Dreaver. (Neg. : A.J.D.)

Mentioned in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 201 - Levin … first sale … 12 February 1893 in yards at the back of Fred Stuckey’s barn. ... 9 days later … Abraham & Williams ‘are starting to erect the new stockyards’. ... Queen Street West, which served until 1925.

Several pens of sheep and a large group of men at the Saleyards, Queen Street West, Levin. These saleyards sited between Weraroa Road and Saulsbury Street were on the northern side of Queen Street and were in use from 1890’s to 1920’s.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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HHS No. 24. Caption: “Oats were grown at ‘Cheslyn Rise’ for the many horses on the estate. This shows the oats put into rows of stooks. A reaper and binder cut the oats and tied it into sheaves which were stooked before threshing. The straw was chopped into chaff”.

Sheaves of oats stacked in stooks, ‘Cheslyn Rise’. There is a singled storied house and some standing native bush in the background.

Caption on reverse reads: “Oats were grown at Cheslyn Rise for the many horses on the estate. This shows the oats put into rows of stooks. A reaper and binder cut the oats and tied it into sheaves which were stooked before threshing. The straw was chopped into chaff.”

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Penciled on back: “24. Chinese Market Garden at Otaki, 1945.

This photograph must be acknowledged to the J.D. Pascoe Collection. Alexander Turnbull Library, Welligton, New Zealand. Reference No. 1299 1/4”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date. 20/10/90

A man walks behind his horse which is pulling a cultivator across fields at a market garden at Otaki, 1945. . This photo used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 254.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted.

RESTRICTED PHOTOGRAPH

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Browns Berryfruit Farm.”

Penciled on back: “25. Raspberry picking on Browns Berryfruit Gardens, January 1958. From ‘Chronicle’ photograph (negative number unknown). Chronicle Supplement ‘81, P.59.”

Stamped on back with black ink: Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date. 20/10/90

Seven unidentified young women pick raspberries at Brown’s Berryfruit Gardens, 1958.

The Chronicle 75th Jubilee Supplement of March 1981 named them as:

Pat Allington, Margaret Wilson, June Moody, Sandra Baker, Betty Davies, Junnette Snowsill and Margaret Hatfield.

It also said they were paid sixpence a pound for their efforts - the going rate in those days.

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A young girl loads hay onto a horse-drawn cart.

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1) Land was cheap and terms generous for a settler who was willing to clear his holding from bush.

First class town, suburban and rural land in the centre of one of the most fertile tracts of flat country at prices varying from £2 to £6 an acre. That was the offer made by the Crown Lands Office in 1889 after the Government survey of the Levin area.

2) Survivors of massacre first to clear bush.

The clearing where the Ostlers - the first family in the Levin block - settled, was the refuge of Maori survivors of Te Rauparaha's massacre.

3) Terms of settlement on land in 1889.

"Charming, romantic township". This is the description above the sale notice of another block of block near Levin, put

up for auction by T. Kennedy, MacDonald and Co, on instructions from the Manawatu Railway Company.

Three horses harnessed to a plough and being driven by an unidentified man.

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen - Ihakara Creamery 1923-26 8 H.P. Steam Boiler Tangye Engine 2 Separators 660 gallons, 440 gallons per hour Robe Drive

Val Whiley

Ihakara Creamery c.1925

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen

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Ihakara Creamery c.1925. A collection of three buildings and a tank stand behind a wire fence.

3 B&W photo print copies (2 are enlarged duplicates) (plus B&W negative)

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