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: “Christabel Nation.”

Christabel Nation, sitting outside a wooden building with a cello.

1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Mrs Prouse”

Mrs Prouse standing outside a wooden building.

1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Christabel.”

Penciled on back: “Xmas Greetings & Good Wishes.”

Christabel Nation standing in the garden of a two storied house.

1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Mrs Prouse, Christabel, Ms Viten.”

From left to right Christabel Nation, Mrs Prouse and Mrs Viten

1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Weraroa House 1891 – Details on framed photo. (F.C.S.)”

Stamped on back with black ink - Photograph by J. Cumming, Levin, N.Z. Negative No. 322/5

‘Weraroa House’, home of Richard and Christina Prouse. This two storied wooden house was built c 1891. This photograph was taken prior to the demolition of the house in the mid 1960s.

1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Donated by Joice Forster, 41 Liverpool St., Levin. Dec. 1994 F.C.S.Given to her by Prouse. “Weraroa House” site now. Was about in line with railway station.” and “Said by Winton Parker (Prouse decendant) built to same plan as Ashlea House, Queen St. East, formerly occupied by Lou Prouse, now by his son. A third original Prouse brother said to have built a house in Wellington to same plan. He ran a timber yard & moulding factory in Wellington. Weraroa House built 1891 or 92 for Richard Prouse, saw-miller with sawmill where Horowhenua Energy sub-station is now. Prouse Bros. sawmill built c.1891-1907.”

“Penciled bottom left corner – J. Rogers Photo.”

The home of Richard Prouse, (sawmiller), later called “Weraroa House”, at Weraroa. The two storied wooden house, with an iron roof, two brick chimneys, sash windows, a bay window on the lower floor at the front of the house, a balcony on the upper floor above a verandah on the lower floor, was built in 1891 or 1892. The house was situated directly to the east of the Levin Railway Station at Weraroa.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

See also 2000.073.0001

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