Written on back with blue ballpoint pen – Oxford St. P.Office, Commercial Bank, Bowman’s Bookshop, Tip Top Milk Bar & Tearooms, Worsfolds Jewellers, Hanlon Dentist upstairs.

Oxford Street, east side, 1970 1 B&W photo print

Left – right : Post Office / CBA (Commercial Bank of Australia) / Bowman’s (bookshop) / Levin Milk Bar & Tearooms (Tip Top sign) / Worsfolds Jewellers / M.L. Hanlon, Dental Surgeon (upstairs).

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

G. W. WEBLEY
SIGN WRITER AND DECORATOR
Oxford St, Levin.
estimates given

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W. PALMER

OXFORD STREET, LEVIN,

LATE JAMIESON.

Furniture, Bedding, Mattresses, Etc. Joinery, Shop Fittings, Etc.

Give C. SMITH, Levin, 5/6 weekly for 7 months and he'll get you a Free Wheel Cycle from England.
Give SMITH 5/6 weekly for 14 months and he'll get you the best and must cornplete English Bicycle from the factory.
Give SMITH 5/6 weekly for 6 months and he'll get you a Bicycle from America.
Give SMITH 5/6 weekly for 12 months and he'll get you the best American or British American Bicycle-thats all.

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Mr D.S. Mackenzie
Dentist
Levin.

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YOUR MOTHER'S
Old-fashioned Ginger-bread Cookies

TASTED BETTER than those you have now-a days. There is reason for it. If you dont think so, come to us for a quarter- pound of our grand JAMAICA GINGER: it is a light, golden, corn colour-not the muddy, (dark, brownish yellow kind you have generally bought. But when you come to the flavour, that's when the delight comes : it has the true, old-time Ginger flavour-all of the streogth without the twang and bite of that ground rope-red pepper combination. We suggest that if you need Ginger you buy It. from us, lay aside what remains on hand of the old Ginger you have been using, and see if in taste and colour ours does not outshine the old one. If not, bring it back. Ours costs lOd the quarter-pound, 3/- the pound.

From E. F. LEVY, M.P.S.,
The leading arid oldest-established Chemist, Oxford street, Levin.

1.Manawatu railway company's vision speeded Levin district's development.

The saga of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's pioneer railway enterprise which, more than any other single act of private enterprise, expedited the opening up and development of the Manawatu, must always hold a place of pride in the history of Levin and the Horowhenua district. In those far-off days there was no Welfare State, as we know it today, and in many fields of progress the pioneers had to be prepared to back up their visions and faith in their new country with their own hard-won savings.

2. Levin personalities in earliest days.

The first Dairy Factory in Levin was situated in Weraroa Road between where the Horowhenua College now stands and Queen Street. The manager was Mr, A. J. Galishan. He was probably also the first cyclist in the area.

3. This date would have made firemen town's pioneers.

A slightly perplexing exhibit recently came to light during a hunt for early records. This is a copy of the by-laws, rules and regulations of the Levin Fire Brigade, printed in Wellington in 1921.

4. Maoris missed their train after night-long vigil.

A group of Maoris waited at the Levin Railway station, then at Roslyn Road crossing.

5. Weraroa at the turn of the century.

In the years round 1900 Weraroa was the main centre.