Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “A school group. On the names could be about 1898. Charles Welby would have started school about 1897 at the Queen st. School. Fred ferris was in his late teens in a photo of the Donny at the cross-roads series in 1912.”

Written on piece of paper with black ballpoint pen: “Class of Horowhenua School, Beach Rd. at the Weraroa Town hall (tempory school room). Was sited where the Cosmopoliton Club’s Ward St. car park is now 1990. Photo c. 1898. 1898-c.1914”

Written on another piece of paper (both sides) with blue & black ballpoint pens: “c.1898 not earlier. Class at Weraroa Town Hall (built 1896, demolished) c.1914. The Cosmopoliton Club Ward St. carpark & entrance). Identification other side. Original Mavis Whiley, 8 Roslyn Rd. & Charles Welby, War Vets Home.”

Back Row – Harry Bolton, Hurst, Phil Goldsmith, Alec Adsett, King, Strawbridge, Bill Hanson, Banks, Partridge, Neville Winiata, , Hirst, King, Goldsmith. 2nd Row – ? Hurst, Alick Goldsmith, Chris Akenson, Daphne Inder, ..... Charlotte Adsett, Elsie Adsett, ........ Strawbridge, Bolton, Teacher – Miss Howan. 3rd Row – Bill Henson, Wood, Prior, ? , Wood, ? , Akenson, Sis Welby, Rhodes, ? , ? , ? , Sid Welby, Eti Riki, , B. Strawbridge. Front Row – Chas Williams, Strawbridge, Fred Ferris, Hurst, Charles Welby. Names given by Chas Welby, Mavis Whiley & handed on by Mrs Mavis Whiley.

Children fromHorowhenua,when the school was temporarily situated at the Weraroa Town Hall c.1898. 48 pupils fromthe school which was normally operated from a Beach Road site, are pictured with their lady teacher Miss Howan. The school at Weraroa was built in 1896 and demolished around 1914, and was situated where the Cosmopolitan Club carpark now has its entrance in Ward Street.

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

Alleged “Outhouse” pranksters, from the incident on New Year’s Day, 1912. Seven men are picture and are identified as:- Back Row (left to right) Fred Ferris, unknown, Joseph Scott, Albert Mudgeway. Front Row (left to right) Harold Mudgeway, John Ford, Paddy Dynan. Caption at bottom of photograph reads: “Guilty or Not Guilty.”

Handwritten bottom of original, as caption: “Guilty or not guilty ?”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “Original at Vernon Mudgeway Levin. The alleged offenders of the dunny at the Queen St. – Oxford St. intersection. New Year’s Eve 1912. From left, back row – Fred Ferris, —? , Joseph Scott, Albert Mudgeway. Front row – Harold Mudgeway, -- ? , Charles Mudgeway. Unidentified – John Ford & Paddy Dynan. Identified by Vernon Mudgeway Levin. Arlette Reading (Scott) Auckland 1986. Original at Vernon Mudgeway. Information Chronicle 12/1/1912. F.C. Swanwick.”

Penciled on back – Horowhenua Historical Society.

See also – Acc. #2000.575 for newspaper article, Chronicle 12/1/1912

Local and General. John Ford, Albert Mudgway, Charles Mudgway, Harold Mudgway, Joseph Scott, Frederick Ferris and Barney Dinan were charged at Levin S.M. Court this morning with having placed an obstruction on Oxford Street on the 1st January last. The presiding justices were Messrs B.R. Gardener and Jeremiah Hurley. Constable Bagrie prosecuted, and Mr Blenkhorn appeared for the defence. The case arose out of the disorderly proceedings in Levin on New Year’s Eve (Sunday), when a number of young fellows shifted an outhouse and left it standing in the thoroughfare at the intersection of Queen and Oxford streets. The police witnesses were Tom Tuohy, Cyril Jennings, Leslie Martin, and Reginald Coombes. All four of these witnesses had made statements to the police which the police regarded as being sufficient to establish their case, but when they were put in the box today they all had an affliction of memory which prevented them from remembering the main facts that were set down in the statements they made to the police. The bench, consequently, had to dismiss the cases against all the accused.

See also – Acc. #2000.339.0002

(caption – “I Aint A Goin To Tell”) – photo of the 4 witnesses who had an “affliction of memory” ?

Alleged “Outhouse” pranksters, from the incident on New Year’s Day, 1912. Seven men are picture and are identified as:- Back Row (left to right) Fred Ferris, unknown, Joseph Scott, Albert Mudgeway. Front Row (left to right) Harold Mudgeway, John Ford, Paddy Dynan. Caption at bottom of photograph reads: “Guilty or Not Guilty.”

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