Dora Adkin and Ron Law sitting on motorbike on beach with boys on horses in background.
Photographed Wednesday December 26 1917 at Hokio Beach.
From Te Papa Collection:
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=123403
Inscription on front, “cf photo taken by Miss Picken 1977 from same position.” Inscription below photo, “Looking downstream to the home of Hector McDonald Junior, canoe, eel weir, odd houses with ….. (remainder unreadable)”.
Inscription on reverse, “Not this”.
Two photos showing Hokio Stream.
The first photo shows Hector McDonald in a canoe, possibly the Hamaria on the Hokio Stream. Taken from the Te Maai ridge looking west. Eel weir in mid picture and Hector Jnr’s home “Lakeside” in the background. Inscription reads, “cf photo taken by Miss Picken in 1977 from same position”. Also, “Looking downstream to the home of Hector McDonald Junior, canoe, eel weir and odd houses with…..(remainder unreadable)”.
The second photo is also taken from Te Maai ridge, but looking east. Inscription beneath photo, “Not this.”
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Penciled on back – 16 25/4/77 Photo showing the changed mouth of the Hokio Stream in Living Memory. Photo Miss D. Picken 1977.
Hokio Stream/river mouth & beach, 1977 1 B&W photo print (numbered – 16)
Looking south. Kapiti Island (top right).
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#CaptureYourHorowhenua photography competition - Nature & Adventure / April 2022.
Taken at Hokio Beach. Close to where I would go white baiting with my nana and grandad as a child.
Photographer: Kristy Butterfield.
#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.
Printed on back: “Florrie Walker, Hokio Beach, 1924 G. Leslie Adkin. Collection : John B. Turner.”
UPDATE: Nola Fullarton is certain that this is WINIFRED Walker (not Florrie). (Dec 2010)
Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “married Sammy Parsons” [refers to Florrie Walker]
Also written: “Dear Jo, I saw this in the museum shop the day I took some of Auntie Clare’s things to donate to the anthropology department. What a modern beach girl! Best wishes for a happy birthday & love from Dor & Colin. 21.7.91”
Florrie Walker, in the bathing dress of the day, lying on Ice Plant at Hokio Beach, 1924.
1 sepia tone postcard
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Must be acknowledged to the Alexander Turnbull Library. Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference No. 23251 1/4
Unidentified men net fishing at Hokio Beach, 23/01/1905. Seven men are on the beach with one at each end of a net which they have just pulled ashore. In the background the tide is washing up the Hokio Stream.
1 B&W photo print copy
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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen - Picnic at Hokio Beach Levin and Masterton Amateur Athletic & Cycling Clubs circa 1926. Standing second from left H.O. Whitehouse. On his right Val & Lyn Hislop (a….). Front (lying down) Harold Hislop.
Large group of Levin and Masterton Amateur Athletic & Cycling Club members picnicing at Hokio Beach, c.1926
Approximately 40 people including women and some children.
4 people identified - Standing second from left H.O. Whitehouse. On his right Val & Lyn Hislop (a….). Front (lying down) Harold Hislop.
2 vehicles behind the group with signs: F. Lowe & Sons
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Penciled on back: “Frost-fish taken at Hokio Beach, held by Grace McDonald 29/7/32”
Grace McDonald holds a frost-fish, which was caught at Hokio Beach 29 July 1932.
1 B&W photo print
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Penciled on back – 18 25/4/77
Hokio & Hokio Boys School, 1977 1 B&W photo print (numbered – 18)
Looking west, sea just visible in distance. Also see – #.0072 and its duplicate #.0096
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Penciled on back – 19 25/4/77 2 old piles – the last remaining sign of the last bridge before reaching Hokio Beach. The present road has been altered extensively. photo – Miss Picken 25.4.77
Old bridge piles, Hokio Stream, near Hokio, 1977 1 B&W photo print (numbered – 19)
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Penciled on back – 17 25/4/77 Miss Picken. Hokio.
Written with black ballpoint pen on piece of paper attached to photo - Information has been given that between “4 electric poles” was sight {? site} of original stables. Photo Miss D. Picken 25.4.77
Hokio Boys School, 1977 1 B&W photo print (numbered – 17) duplicate of #.0072
Looking north-east.
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Number at side of photo – 602
Written on back – Hokio Beach 1948
Stamped on back - CROWN COPYRIGHT Additional copies of this Photograph can be obtained on application to the Surveyor-General, Lands and Survey Dept., Wellington.
Also stamped on back – N.Z. Aerial Mapping Ltd, Hastings
Another aerial view of Hokio Beach, 1948
One of 4 overlapping photos of coast and inland area at Hokio (see #.0014a, c & d).
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Number at side of photo – 601
Written on back – Hokio Beach 1948
Stamped on back - CROWN COPYRIGHT Additional copies of this Photograph can be obtained on application to the Surveyor-General, Lands and Survey Dept., Wellington.
Also stamped on back – N.Z. Aerial Mapping Ltd, Hastings
Aerial view of Hokio Beach, 1948
One of 4 overlapping photos of coast and inland area at Hokio (see #.0014b, c & d).
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Number at side of photo – 640
Written on back – Hokio Beach 1948
Stamped on back - CROWN COPYRIGHT Additional copies of this Photograph can be obtained on application to the Surveyor-General, Lands and Survey Dept., Wellington.
Also stamped on back – N.Z. Aerial Mapping Ltd, Hastings
Aerial view of inland area and Hokio Beach Road at Hokio Beach, 1948
One of 4 overlapping photos of coast and inland area at Hokio (see #.0014a, b & d).
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Number at side of photo – 121027 7.8.65
Stamped on back - AEROSURVEYS Tauranga Churchill Buildings, Grey Street Telephone 88 131 P.O. Box 231
Written on back – Hokio App. 10 chs / 1in.
Aerial view of Hokio and Hokio Stream mouth, 1965
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Inscription beneath the photograph reads: “In 1930 Hokio children came into Levin by this school bus. That’s Mr W M Clark standing beside it.”
A school bus which was used by the children from Hokio Beach to attend classes in Levin. The man standing beside the bus is Mr W M Clark.
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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Hokio Beach. Mr David Foster driving his car 50 or 60 yrs ago. Road Bridge built where foot bridge is shown.”
Mr David Foster driving his car through the Hokio Stream at the place where the road bridge is now (2001). Three private houses are in the background and a footbridge crosses the stream behind the car.
1 B&W photo print
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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Bridge across Hokio Stream at Hokio Beach.”
A log across the Hokio Stream at Hokio Beachforms a makeshift bridge upon which three unidentified women are sitting and one unidentified woman is standing. In the background are private residences.
1 B&W photo print
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Picture at left is same photo darkened.
Written on back – F.C.S. Donated by Grace Harvey, Martin’s wife/widow Hokio Bridge Opening Original traffic bridge. Now replaced Voluntary labour. Old bridge timber from County. From west.
Official opening of the Hokio bridge
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Inscription on back, ”#13 Hokio Stream”
Eel weir on the Hokio Stream. Unidentified person in waka, possibly the Hamaria.
Inscription on reverse: ”#4 Hokio Stream.”
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Inscription on reverse “Another view of Hokio Stream. Appears to be an eel weir in foreground.”
An eel weir on the Hokio Stream.
Written on reverse: “Another view of the Hokio Stream. Appears to be an eel weir in foreground.”
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Penciled on back – 1977 Hokio Miss Picken. Hokio Boys School.
Hokio Boys School, 1977 1 B&W photo print (also see – #.0096 duplicate)
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Penciled on back - 5 young Junior Red Cross members from Hokio School who received their certificates in first aid. Foreground, Mrs Z. Beckett and Mrs Z. [? M.] Birch. [M. Birch, see #.0077] Tues. Dec. 1, 1970.
Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.
Junior Red Cross members, 1970 1 B&W photo print
5 boys, Junior Red Cross members from Hokio School, who received their certificates in first aid from Mrs Z. Beckett (front) and Mrs M. Birch (back).
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Inscriptions on reverse read: “See Police story F.C.S. Hokio Beach was then well towards now Waitarere” and ” 1981 Supplement Chronicle date 14/11/1918. Mine washed up at Waitarere beach shortly after or during W W I”.
Mine washed ashore at Hokio / Waitarere Beach 1918.
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