Typed below picture - Huia Flag paraded at civic Welcome Home to men from the Boer War – 1903.

Taken from the building next to the Post Office on Oxford Street looking towards the Levin Hotel on the Queen Street and Oxford Street intersection. The Ngati Huia flag Huia is across the intersection and a crowd stands in a block to take part in the service.

See also – Acc #2000.018.0210 identical photo (scene described as: Service of Commemoration for Edward VII, 1910)

See also 2000.516.0001, 2000.510.0001, 2000.510.0002 and 2000.510.0003

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Inscription on reverse reads: Donated by Mrs E Thomas 5/77. Flood Otaki Easter 1931. In front of Community store Otaki Railway”

Floodwaters approaching the front of the Community Store and Railway Hotel at Otaki Railway, Easter 1931.

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Oxford Street, Levin, c.1920. Taken from the roof of the building on the southwest corner of Oxford Street and Queen St. intersection. The Post Office is on the left and the Levin Hotel on the right. Plane trees line both sides of Oxford Street.

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Written on back with black ink pen: “(Deaths & marriages rife here). Dolce says “Jimmy is getting married at Ashton Tins”. So just watch him. Summer weather. Has J. had any thing to do with “pritrick up hear-ah”. Thought perhaps he had been talking too freely of “God’s own Countrys” Hissings, & upset things. Strains of music & smoke concerts reach up from the (“vicarage”). Things have changed. with love, s.c.”

Embossed faintly (possibly postal date stamp): ” 11.15 AM OC 14 11”

Postcard entitled “Greetings from Shannon” and showing four scenes of Shannon, c.1920. The top left photograph shows Plimmer Terrace looking south from the Albion Hotel. The top right photograph shows the Shannon Railway Station. The bottom left photograph shows Shannon Public School, while the bottom right photograph shows a vew of Shannon across paddocks with Tararua Ranges in background.

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Printed bottom left of original, as caption: “Oxford Street, Levin, N.Z.”

Oxford Street, Levin, north of the Queen Street intersection looking south c.1910. The street is unsealed and plane trees are growing on a grass verge that runs alongside the road. At the centre of the intersection is a gas standard with two lamps. The Post Office is on the left hand side of the photograph and the Levin Hotel on the right hand side.

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See also 2000.294.0012, 1977.035.0002 and 1977.043.0003

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Written on postcard with black ink pen: “Au Revoir” {at top right}, “Nov 14th 1911. “{at bottom}

Letter written on back with purple pencil: “Dear Mrs Hallam Got printers cramp so take to pencil. Winnie looking splendid, toddles with Dolce everywhere now. All gone to bed but Mum & I. Show over, a great success. Powelka out yet. R.W. Taylor a daughter about a month old sold his cows out too. With love A Brown”

A postcard titled “Greetings from Shannon” showing three views of Shannon. The top picture shows the Shannon Railway Station with a hotel in backround. The centre picture shows Plimmer Terrace looking north, with children playing on the unpaved road. The buildings in this photograph have been identified from left to right as the Albion Hotel, several unidentified businesses, W.H. Gunning, a further unidentified business and Dunckley (drapers). The bottom picture shows the Church of the Venerable Bede (Anglican) at its original site in Bryce Street.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “W Hannan”

Inscription on paper accompanying photograph: “Weraroa. Probably about 1900 to 1907. Probably first station there on left. Weraroa Hotel centre & Swainson & Bevan. All were burnt down by 1911.”

Weraroa c 1900-07 from the Main Road with Mako Mako Road in the foreground behind the fence on the right. Also on the right is Swainson and Bevan’s store with the Weraroa Hotel further down the road. To the left is the railway station. The road is unsealed with a large amount of water lying in the ruts.

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Service of Commemoration of the death of Edward VII, 1910. Taken from the building next to the Post Office on Oxford Street looking towards the Levin Hotel on the Queen Street and Oxford Street intersection. The Ngati Huia flag Huia is across the intersection and a crowd stands in a block to take part in the service.

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See also 2000.516.0001, 2000.510.0001, 2000.510.0002 and 2000.510.0003

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A photograph of Shannon pre 1900, looking south. This photograph shows a number of domestic dwellings, a hotel and to the left, a large hall. In the background are the Tararua Ranges.

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