Koputaroa Post Office 1 B&W photo print copy

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Dawn and Bob Wright in the Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Magnolia in bloom at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Red flax at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Dawn and Bob Wright admiring the flowers at Paiaka Iris Gardens.

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Goldfish at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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The fish pond at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Rhododendron at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Pink Magnolia at Paiaka Iris Gardens, Koputaroa.

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Penciled on back (with photo #.0320b but unrelated to it): “Sawmilling at Kereru, Koputaroa Railway Station. “

The Kereru (Koputaroa) Railway Station stands behind the sawmilling business at Kereru. A number of large logs are in this photograph which features a steam driven engine. In the background are several private homes and native bush still covers the hills behind the station and the houses.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0320b on back)

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Penciled on back - Koputaroa School Committee’s second annual cabaret evening. A member of the school committee Mr J.H. Long is seen dancing with Mrs Long. Mon. June 9, 1969. <>Schools.

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

See also – #.0593 same function.

Mr J.H. Long (member of the school committee) dancing with Mrs Long, at the 2nd annual Koputaroa School Committee Cabaret evening. 1 B&W photo print

See also – #.0593 same function.

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Penciled on back - Mr & Mrs E. Law, Ihakara at the 2nd annual cabaret evening of the Koputaroa School Committee. Mon. 9 <>Schools.

Stamped on back with black ink – 11 JUN 1969

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

See also – #.0596 same function.

Mr & Mrs E. Law (Ihakara), at the 2nd annual Koputaroa School Committee Cabaret evening. 1 B&W photo print

See also – #.0596 same function.

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Penciled on back - From left, Mesdames M. Cottle & Y. McEwan & Miss L. Simcox at the Koputaroa Summer Badminton Club’s fixture. Wed. Mar. 11, 1968.

Stamped on back with dark blue ink (twice) – 13 MAR 1968

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

Mrs M. Cottle (left), Mrs Y. McEwan (centre) & Miss L. Simcox (right), at the Koputaroa Summer Badminton Club’s fixture. 1 B&W photo print

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Written with black pen on back: “Manawatu River, Paiaka, Koputaroa. July 22nd 1914.”

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

Used in book: ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 156, with caption - Flax barge on Manawatu River near Te Paiaka. HHS.

Flax barge on Manawatu River, Paiaka, Koputaroa, 1914.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

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Penciled on back - Arnold, the pig who has been adopted by this Jersey cow on the farm of Mr M.J. Guy, Koputaroa. Tues. May 25, 1971.

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

Pig being ‘nursed’ by Jersey cow, 1971 1 B&W photo print

Arnold, the pig, who has been adopted by this Jersey cow, on the farm of Mr M.J. Guy, Koputaroa.

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Original writting on front of mounting board, bottom right, with black ink pen: “R.S. Horn, London Studio.”

Recent writting on front of mounting board, bottom left, with black ballpoint pen: ‘- Koputaroa School 1910 ?”

Written on back with black ink pen: “Vera Richards”

A large group of adults stand behind the pupils of Koputaroa School, possibly at a school picnic 1910. All the women and girls and many of the men are wearing hats and they sit and stand inlong grass under several tall trees.

1 B&W photo print, mounted (1 photo print copy in seperate envelope)

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Inscribed on back with black ink pen: ” Vera Richards.”

Also written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “144 bath St. Levin

Typed on piece of paper sellotaped to back:”Vera Richards – second from left in back row.”

1 B&W photo print, mounted, Koputaroa School group, 1910.There are only female students in this photograph. Only Vera Richards, who is second from the left in the back row, has been identified. The lady teacher, who is wearing a full length dress with sandals, stands at the far right of the photograph. Most of the girls in this photograph are wearing pinafores.

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Written on back with black ink pen: “Vera Richards”

Koputaroa School group, 1900 outside school building. To the right is the schoolmaster, and the schoolmistresses (two) are standing at the rear on the left. There are 52 students in the photograph and those in the front row are sittilg on a stoney playground.

1 B&W photo print, mounted (plus 1 photo print copy in seperate envelope)

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Written below photo with black ink pen - M C Pene H. Pene best Wishes To Mr & Mrs Law. Married 30 August 1899

Embossed bottom right corner on mounting board – Billens Levin

Mrs M.C. & Mr Harry Pene of Koputaroa 1 B&W photo print, mounted

Information on photo suggests they were married on 30 August 1899. Parents of: Signa Pera whiti Charlie Pene

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1) "You will carry a swag if you stay here."
Some mill-hands thought town would be doomed when timber "cut out".

Many of the men who were among the first to trek into this new territory of virgin bush, not to establish farms or businesses, but as paid "hewers of wood and carriers of water," did not have the same faith in the future prosperity of Levin as did the pioneer settlers.

2) Mail boy.

"I was the mail boy in the old days. At that time the station was at Bartholomew's Mill and the mail was thrown off at the crossing. The engines were fired by matai cut into four-foot lengths and stacked in double rows on both sides of the track to a height of about four feet. Matai worked out at about 8/- a cord and it stretched from Weraroa for about a mile. It was a hard job finding mail bags among it when the driver misfired." Mr. R. S. Kent, now of Riccarton.