Photo from Levin School Centennial 1890-1990 booklet - page 42.

Caption reads:

OLD BUS — thought to be Hokio Bus.

Stamped in red ink on reverse: “Printed by ? F Fram?es, Palmerston North”

Bus belonging to Harts Motors which ran between Foxton and Foxton Beach. The registration number plate is 61.304. and the bus has shades (which in this photograph are rolled up) to keep the sun off the passengers. White marks on the print obscure the writing on the top of the front of the bus.

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Old Folks Outing. Seated. ? Wyn Brady, Margaret Cole, ? Phyl Russell. Standing Dolly Guthrie Far right Emily Guilford Above right Betty Sharps.”

Penciled on back: “Mrs Guilford”

A group of nine Shannon people on an outing, photographed in a city garden beside a bus stop. Those in the group are:- Standing behind concrete block wall from left to right: – Unknown, Betty Sharps. Seated from left to right:- Unidentified, Win Brady, Margaret Cole, unidentified, Dorothy Guthrie (standing), Phyllis Russell. Emily Guilford (standing at far right).

1 B&W photo print

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Inscription on reverse reads: “This vehicle was built for Madge Bro of Palm Nth, ran daily P.N. to Foxton until overtaken by a more modern bus. This was known as a “Chara bang”. Seated 10 – 15 persons”.

This vehicle was built for Madge Brothers of Palmerston North and ran daily between Foxton and Palmerston North, until replaced by a more modern bus. This bus was known as a “Chara bang” and seated between 10 and 15 persons.

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Penciled on back: “A modern Newmans coach 9th February 1981 From ‘Chronicle’ photograph Negative No. 81231”

Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “10. Buses.”

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

Newmans coach No. 034, 1981

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Inscriptions on reverse read: “Levin. Dec. 1st. 1933” and “Donated Mrs Jordan”

Two unidentified persons stand on the footpath outside A L Williams Tearooms on the western side of Oxford Street, where the DEKA store is now located (2001). On the southern side of the tea rooms is Kenneth Aitken’s bookshop. Parked against the kerb on an angle is a service car with the destinations New Plymouth, Wanganui and Wellington painted on its side.

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Written on pieces of paper with blue ballpoint pen: “Jack Cotter, Gladstone Rd. school bus. ” and “This photo presented by Mrs Eunita Trotter, married to William Trotter. The photo shows the 1st Levin school bus that travelled along Gladstone Rd. as far as the Pipe Bridge. There was a gate on the road there, but the Trass boys walked from much further up the road, probably where Poultons farm now is.

Mr & Mrs Jack Cotter (mother nee Mary Russel) came to Levin in 1902. They first lived in Queen St. West, opposite Te Kowhai (house burn’t down few years ago). They then moved to Gladstone Rd. opposite where Jack Honore now lives. Mrs Trotter thinks some people called Burns had an orchard on the land previously. The Cotter family had 8 children. Mrs Trotter now the only one left in Levin. When bus first started Mrs Trotter thinks in 1927, one of the teachers to travel on the bus was Miss Dyer, she is now Mrs Tui Adkin, married to Clifford Adkin, living at Queen St. East.”

Also from Mrs Trotter: “Mr & Mrs G.K. Wilson lived at Te Kowhai in the early 1900’s. When they moved they then lived in Arapaepae Rd. in the house recently owned by Mr & Mrs T. Ecclesfield. It has very large Rhododenron trees and opposite.”

First Levin School ‘Bus’, c.1927 – a covered wagonette pulled by two horses. The rear wheels of the wagonette are larger than the front wheels. A number of adults and children appear to be riding both inside and outside the bus.

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? Jack Cotter driver, Gladstone Road.

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “6. Shannon Old Folks Outing”

Shannon Old Folks Club members standing in front of and alongside a bus.

Update from Shannon CWI meeting on 22 April 2010 - woman 3rd from right: Jean Kelly

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “5 Shannon Old Folks Bus Trip.”

Shannon Old Folks Club members seated on a bus.

Names supplied at Shannon CWI meeting on 22 April 2010:

Woman with hand up in middle: Marcia Proctor, woman at far right: Lorna Sayles, man centre back: Merv Hyde

Circa 1980

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