Update from plaque in Main Street, Foxton.

The view from Clyde Street dates from the early 1900s, prior to 1905. It was in that year that the old Bank of New Zealand building (next to the first telegraph pole on the left) was burnt down. Whytes Hotel is on the left and on the other side of White Street is the Red Store of M H Walker. A flag flies on the Post Office Hotel. On the right a group stands outside the building which was built as the Bank of Australasia and in the photograph is probably a doctor's surgery. It was also used by the Salvation Army Red Shield Club before it was burnt down.

Main Street, Foxton, looking south from Clyde Street intersection, c.1900. A group of people are gathered on the footpath while a girl dressed in white stands on the road . A gas streetlight stands on the corner.

Also large mounted copy

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Keith Robinson and Henry Robinson Henry dressed in racing silks.

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Two unidentified girls, aged about 3 years on a wooden rocking horse. The girls are dressed identically in woollen dresses, ankle socks and black shoes. They could possibly be twins.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

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Penciled on back: “35. Exchange. New Levin telephone exchange from ‘Chronicle’ 8 November 1963. Operator and supervisor.”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date 20/10/90

A switchboard operator and her supervisor at the Levin Automatic Telephone Exchange, 1963.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Written on backing board: “(with oak frame, see #s2001.019.0002) – Return to N. Clayton, Centennial Committee.”

Plimmer Terrace, Shannon. The street has been decorated with flags and bunting for opening of the Mangahao Power Station (Monday 3rd November 1924) by Prime Minister W.F. “Bill” Massey. The road is unpaved and there are several cars parked on both sides.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

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Written on paper attached below photo – Borough Councillors & Staff 1927

Written on back – Borough Council, 1927 Mortensen – W.G. Clark – F. Parker – ...?... – F. Roe – (H. Channings, overseer) – Hobson (mayor) – Ramsay (town clerk) – ...?... – C. Keedwell Road-building Machine

Borough Councillors with road-building machine (steam roller), 1927

Left to Right: M. Mortensen, W.G. Clark, F.E. Parker, ...?... , F. Roe, H. Channings (overseer), T. Hobson (mayor), Ramsay (town clerk), ...?... , C.S. Keedwell.

Plus an unidentified man standing on the machine in the shadow.

See also – Acc# 2000.018.0242 (copy made from this orginal and mounted). See also – Acc# 2001.013.0001 (same machine and people seen from a different view).

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Embossed with gold leaf on mounting board below photo - Billens & Bunting Palmerston North.

Unidentified man

Has a beard and moustache.

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Printed on mounting board below photo - J. Bragge Photographer, Wellington, N.Z.

Printed on back - Portrait and Landscape Photographer James Bragge Wellington, New Zealand. Copies and enlargements to any size may always be had from this negative No. ......

Unidentified middle-aged man

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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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Inscription on reverse of mounted photograph reads: “Lent by Mrs Kirkcaldie. nee Marjorie Kebbel daughter of John Kebbell. Now given. Cook’s Family Hotel now known as the Foxton but of course re-built.”

Foxton Family Hotel, formerly the home of Thomas U Cook, in Gray Street, prior to 1892 when the building was demolished and a new hotel of the same name was opened on the present site in Main Street.

Two original photographs, one of which is mounted, and two copies

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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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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Flax Cutters, Miranui Mill, Shannon.”

Four flax cutters taking a break, Miranui Mill, Shannon. The swamp was divided into blocks which were cut once every four years by the flax cutters.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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This phot was also used in Bob Ayson's book Miranui with the following description:

Flaxcutters having a welcome rest amongst the flax. The swamp was divided into blocks which were cut once every four years by the flaxcutters who used a sharp blade shaped like a reap hook. The portions of the block allotted to each group of cutters were called "breaks". The flax was cut about one foot above the base of the plant and tied into bundles of about 25 to a ton and stacked for the "trammies" to collect. Over three acres of flax was cut daily and the average worker cut 3rh to 4 tons of flax in a 8 hour day. About 22,000 tons of leaf was cut annually.
Photo: Palmerston North Public Library.

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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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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Mounted black and white photograph attached to grey card.

Foxton flood August 1926. This photograph shows four men standing on the jetty at Foxton Beach.

See also f1999.1452

Black and white photograph.

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Nine men in Masonic Lodge reaglia. Those in the photograph are from left to right:-

Back Row:- De Ridder, McColl, Ross, Rangiheuea.

Front Row:- Bullard, Barr, Penton, Cowley, Haliday.

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Information on back of original photograph - Survey gang Mangahao c1919

Survey Gang, Mangahao, c.1919

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen – (3)

Stamped on back with purple ink - Shannon Centenary 1887-1987 Committee

Mangahao Dam (No.1 ?) camp & construction site, 1920’s 1 B&W photo print, mounted

View showing tent-type accommodations built precariously on hillside.

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Printed on front of mounting board, top right, with black ink: “P 113”

Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “P. 113. Four men at working face in No. 2 tunnel. Nine men were killed in this tunnel, seven at one time by foul air. P.N.P.L.”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “Four men at working face in No. 2 tunnel. Nine men were killed in this tunnel, seven of them in a single incident when ventilation system broke down. G.L. Adkin photo (P.Nth. Pub. Lib. Collection. MGH 205)”

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 280, with caption - Workers in No. 2 tunnel at head of pipeline. Nine men died here, seven in a single tragic occurrance of foul air. PNPL.

Four unidentified men working at the face in the No. 2 tunnel, Mangahao, 1920’s. Nine men were killed during the construction of this tunnel, seven of them in a single incident when the ventilation system broke down.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

Used in book – ‘Horowhenua County and its People’, page 280

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“Inscription on reverse reads: “3 sons of C J Pownall in front late 1898’s”

Three sons of C J Pownall with others at Wellington Harbour 1898.

Mounted photograph

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Mounted black and white photograph attached to cream card.

Printed beside photograph – W. McGuire & Co. Sydney.

Written on back - Mrs M.V. Reid 37 Wright St. Wellington S.I. M. Stewart H. ..astu Mrs Mellish Mrs Balynetine M.W. Stansell O.P.A

Formal outdoor photograph of two men and two women. Tjose in the photograph are from left to right: -

Mrs Mellish, M Stewart H ..astu, M W Stansell, Miss Balynetine.

Mounted black and white photograph.

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