In 1978 Alan Eyles was a candidate in the brand-new electorate of Horowhenua. He came second to National's Geoff Thompson but still managed to get 39.30% of the vote (Thompson got 42.86%). Eyles did not contest the seat again.

The Horowhenua electorate changed boundaries over the years, gaining and losing Shannon and Waikanae. Foxton constantly remained in the electorate. With the advent of MMP in the 1996 election, electorates were redrawn and Horowhenua was largely replaced by the Otaki electorate. 

With the average New Zealander making four or five trips a year to the cinema in 1978, an advertising slide was a great way of getting your face in front of voters. Eyle's photo was in black and white- perhaps to associate him with newspaper publicity. With each slide only shown for a few seconds at a time the message had to be quick and to the point.

One of a series of slides which were shown during intermission in Horowhenua cinemas. As they were very cheap to produce, local companies could easily advertise with their closest cinema on a budget.

This local ice cream company would have had some competition in the concession stands. The Kerridge-Odeon cinema chain made it's own New Zealand ice cream just for it's theatres! 

A.J. Davison tucks into his lunch at the Regent Court watched by amused Mum Shelly.

Loading up time at Tegel Foods.

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4.01am

Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 74”

Penciled on back: “ATL [Alexander Turnbull Library] Coach on the beach road.”

Stamped on back with black ink: “Horowhenua Historical Society. “

Three unidentified women sitting atop a Cobb and Co stagecoach crossing a river, on the beach ‘road’. The coach is drawn by four horses and driven by a male driver. The three women share two parasoles to protect them from the sun. A boy wearing a cloth cap and another person are barely visible inside the coach.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted – damaged – surface removed lower left hand corner.

See also 2000.103.0001 (duplicate, includes negative)

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 53”

Written below pictures 1 and 2, as caption: “The whares left by Mr P. Bartholomew after the removal of his sawmill. 11.1.14.”

Written below picture 3, as caption: “The old sawmill site from the terrace near the main gate leading into Leighton paddock. 11.1.14.”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen - The Bartholomew sawmill occupied this site by the Makahika river from 1906. Late in 1913 the machinery was removed to a new site near the Makaretu junction with Ohau. G.L. Adkin renovated the whare next the low knoll (The ‘Kopje’) so that he could camp there while developing North Block. After he had married Maud Herd ( in December 1915) they spent nearly three months living here while ‘Woodside’ homestead was built on Section 42, Queen Street East. They called it ‘Sonoma’, after ‘The Valley of the Moon’ in Jack London’s novel of that name. (Adkin Coll, A.T.L)

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date

Three photographs of the old sawmill site, Makahika River, Horowhenua, 1 November 1914. Picture (1) top – Whare (door open) and saddled horse. Picture (2) centre – Same whare (left) and 2nd whare (right). Picture (3) bottom – Remains of sawmill site & the whares.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (composite)

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Written with blue pen on piece of paper attached to back - Sawmilling, log hauling. Also penciled on this paper - Page 41, “75 Years in Levin”.

Penciled: “61 CH”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date

See also – Acc. #2000.073.0006 (Original, sepia photo – Felling White Pine, Levin district, c.1904).

Loading log onto waggon, c.1904. Five unidentified men working with a four horse team in the native bush in the Horowhenua district. Two men wait on the horse drawn wagon while the other three men attempt to roll a log onto the wagon using stumping jacks.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0317a)

See also 2000.073.0006 (Original, sepia photo – Felling White Pine, Levin district, c.1904).

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Paper with typed information: “PNDL/BF 8 c.1904 Felling White Pine in the Levin district. Tree on the right is of unusual size. White rectangular area between two jigger boards is a sign nailed to the trunk. The man at the base is holding a jigger board, three others in use. Copied from AJHR 1904 C-1 P.30”

White pine milling in the Levin district, c.1904. A large log is being loaded onto a horse-drawn wagon using jigger boards.

1 Sepia tone photo print

See also 2000.018.0317b (B&W copy, mounted).

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink – P 41

Written with blue ballpoint pen on piece of paper glued to back: “Meeting between Flax Miller’s and County Chairman, G.F. Monk (centre bottom). Bottom Left : A.A. Brown – His Father-in-Law.

This photo used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 158, and acknowledged to – Brown Coll.

Flax Millers with the County Chairman, G.A. Monk, 1919. Mr Monk sits in the centre of the front row , with his father-in law Mr A. A. Brown, seated to the far left in the front row.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Penciled on back – 2 25/4/77 Group of members standing on exact spot of home & grounds of Hector (Jnr) Lakeside with McDonald Cemetery directly behind. Photographed by Miss D. Picken.

Written with blue ballpoint pen – 25/4/77

Crawford Family at McDonald Cemetery, 1977 1 B&W photo print (numbered – 2)

Cemetery also visible in photo #.0073 (behind Cabbage trees at right of photo).

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Penciled on back - The Muhunoa East School section of the Horowhenua Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Club Compet[it]ions. Standard III pupil Colin Robb with his lamb Jughead which took first place in care and rearing.

Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.

The Muhunoa East School section of the Horowhenua Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Club Competitions. Standard 3 pupil Colin Robb with his lamb Jughead, which took first place in care and rearing. 1 B&W photo print

[?] Photo assumed taken on same day as #.0743

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Penciled on back - The Conclusion of the final hunting fixture for the season of the Manawatu Hunt Club. Sat. Aug. 14, 1971.

Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.

Manawatu Hunt Club, 1971 1 B&W photo print

Conclusion of the final hunting fixture for the season.

Group of 5 people (3 women & 2 men) unidentified.

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Embossed bottom left corner – Hobday’s Rona Studio Feilding N.Z.

Aerial view across Lake Horowhenua to Levin & Tararua Ranges, 1929 ? 1 B&W photo print

Compare to #.0008 Levin town centre, dated 1929, probably taken on same “fly-over”.

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Horowhenua is situated in the North Island of New Zealand approximately 1 hour north of the capital city of Wellington.

Inscription on reverse reads: “Thought to be local photograph, W Thorley. Negative Turnbull Library”

Sand dune belt on the West Coast, Horowhenua Region, with Tasman Sea in the background.

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Tom Young examines a corn crop in his market garden on State Highway 1 just past the Kuku Dairy Factory site at Ohau.

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Aerial view of Horowhenua taken from a fixed wing aircraft piloted by Royce Jones on 27th March 2000

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Horowhenua farmland from the air. Taken from a fixed wing aircraft piloted by Royce Jones on 27th March 2000

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Aerial view of Horowhenua coastline (Waitarere Beach) looking south with Kapiti Island in the distance. Taken from a fixed wing aircraft piloted by Royce Jones on 27th March 2000.

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Penciled on back - Two Levin men, Messrs M. Kemmett (at left) and W. Waitere on the opening day of the Toheroa season. Mon. Sept. 15, 1969.

Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.

See also – #.0547 also digging Toheroa on same day.

Mr M. Kemmett (left) & Mr W. Waitere (right), both of Levin, digging Toheroa on the opening day of the Toheroa season, Monday 15 September 1969. 1 B&W photo print

See also – #.0547 also digging Toheroa on same day.

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Penciled on back - Three boys relaxing at left are, K. Gattsche, T. Denton and B. Scott. The boys on the skateboards are, in front, B. Duncan and at rear R. Brown. Oct. Thurs. 23, 1969.

Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.

Boys skateboarding on tar-seal at unnamed beach, 1969 1 B&W photo print

Three boys relaxing at left are (L to R) – K. Gattsche, T. Denton and B. Scott. Two boys on skateboards at right are – B. Duncan (front) and R. Brown (rear).

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Two members of the McKenzie family clamber up a track at Lake Papaitonga Reserve

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McKenzie family members explore the bush at Lake Papaitonga Reserve

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Tararua Range foothills and skyscape from the Whirokino Bridge

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Rural scene at sunset on the western side of the Levin to Shannon Highway on 2nd April 2000

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Cabbage trees against the sky at sunset at Ohau, on State Highway 1.

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Potts Hill on highway between Levin and Shannon. This photograph is taken going down the hill towards Levin.

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Rural scene between Levin and Shannon on the 2nd April 2000.

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