This is MAVtech's second cinema advertising slide from Foxton's Cochran's Cycles. The first slide dates to around the same era and promotes Raleigh bicycles. This particular slide shares the virtues of Hercules brand bikes. The company had a float at the 1955 Foxton Centennial Parade which showed both ranges of product. Funnily enough, this slide tells viewers that Hercules bikes were 'The Finest Bicycle Built Today' while the Raleigh machines were advertised on THEIR slide as coming from 'The Greatest Name In Cycling'. 

I'd assume they weren't shown side by side!

The Raleigh slide and the parade photographs are all available on Kete.

Black and white photograph.

Fire at the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd on 16 November 1933. Bystanders are watching smoke billow out of the building, while a man has climbed to the top of the pole on the left hand side of the photograph.

Black and white photograph.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

Paddling pool in foreground. Toilet block with sheltered seating between Men’s (left) & Woman’s (right). Note houses in background (right) on what is now (2000) the Village Green & Regent Cinema complex.

Levin Domain, cnr. Queen & Salisbury Sts., 1970 1 B&W photo print

Paddling pool in foreground. Toilet block with sheltered seating between Men’s (left) & Woman’s (right). Note houses in background (right) on what is now (2000) the Village Green & Regent Cinema complex.

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

The Hyde family Hardware Store on the corner Plimmer Terrace and Ballance Street in Shannon.

  #CaptureYourHorowhenua photography competition - Nature & Adventure / April 2022.

This photo was taken while Mountain Biking up Trig.

Photographer: Jason Goldie 

#CaptureYourHorowhenua is a district-wide amateur photography competition that encourages Horowhenua residents to showcase what they love about their district. 

The images are exhibited at Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō, and the winner is decided by public vote.

“Inscription on reverse reads: “3 sons of C J Pownall in front late 1898’s”

Three sons of C J Pownall with others at Wellington Harbour 1898.

Mounted photograph

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”