Unlike most of MAVtech's cinema advertising slides this one kindly has a date on it! It was issued or screened on the 1st of December 1968. This striking looking slide would have looked fantastic on the big screen where it would have been shown for a few seconds during the end of intermission. 

The 'Te Kowhai Reception Lounge' is no longer with us- a Kete post from 2011 shows bare land where the building used to be. As of March 2023 some third party business directories still show it with one mentioning it was 'set in spacious grounds with glorious native bush' with a capacity to seat 120.

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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Demolished in 1968 to make way for extensions to the legal offices of Park, Cullinane and Turnbull, this old house in Queen Street is thought to have been built in the first decade of this century.

In 1913, according to Mrs Francis Duguid, "Old Bob" a pensioner, lived in it and then about 1915, it was occupied by the McDonald family. Mr McDonald was a saddler and his only daughter, Mary, married local power board employee, Maurie Brown, who was a well-known cricketer. In the 1920s, Fred Proctor and his wife and two children lived in the house and it was then occupied for many years by the late Mrs Elizabeth Hornblow until she died there in November, 1948.

The property passed to her son, Mr S. Beetson who sold it to Otaki dental surgeon, Mr H. Jackson, in 1949. Besides Mr Jackson, Mr Boyd, the optometrist, had rooms there before moving to a property further along the street.

Penciled on back – 2/3/71 Woolworths, Oxford St. west. Negative No. 16

Woolworths, west side Oxford St., 1971 1 B&W photo print

Negative No. 16

Farmer’s Trading Co. Ltd. at Queen St. intersection also shown.

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Paddling pool in foreground. Toilet block with sheltered seating between Men’s (left) & Woman’s (right). Note houses in background (right) on what is now (2000) the Village Green & Regent Cinema complex.

Levin Domain, cnr. Queen & Salisbury Sts., 1970 1 B&W photo print

Paddling pool in foreground. Toilet block with sheltered seating between Men’s (left) & Woman’s (right). Note houses in background (right) on what is now (2000) the Village Green & Regent Cinema complex.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Queen St construction.”

A steam roller towing a road scraper being used during the construction of Queen Street.

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I took P Williams' photo from a hot air balloon and named some of the Streets. Its taken from the North looking South.

Printed with black ink above photo, from left to right - - at left – an arrow pointing upward to the left, indicating the direction of North. - at centre - Borough of Levin and environs. [figure, a length scale] Approximate Scale: 100 feet to an inch. - at right - Serial No. 58060 Set No. 40 Date of photography 28.9.64 Aerosurveys – Tauranga.

Has fabric backing (for stiffness & added strength) with fabric tape around edges (to reduce damage to edges during handling) and mounted at top in steel bar (similar to those used in filing cabinets).

4th photo (of 6) on 7th ‘track’ 1 B&W photo print

Farmland. Arapaepae Road / State Highway 57 (left, top to bottom). Queen Street (centre, left to right).

7th ‘track’ (6 photos) – begins south of Tararua Road and ends at Roslyn Road.

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Printed with black ink above photo, from left to right - - at left – an arrow pointing upward to the left, indicating the direction of North. - at centre - Borough of Levin and environs. [figure, a length scale] Approximate Scale: 100 feet to an inch. - at right - Serial No. 58058 Set No. 39 Date of photography 28.9.64 Aerosurveys – Tauranga.

Has fabric backing (for stiffness & added strength) with fabric tape around edges (to reduce damage to edges during handling) and mounted at top in steel bar (similar to those used in filing cabinets).

3rd photo (of 6) on 7th ‘track’ 1 B&W photo print

Farmland. Arapaepae Road / State Highway 57 (left, top to bottom) between Queen Street (to the north) & Tararua Road (to the south).

7th ‘track’ (6 photos) – begins south of Tararua Road and ends at Roslyn Road.

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Printed with black ink above photo, from left to right - - at left – an arrow pointing upward to the left, indicating the direction of North. - at centre - Borough of Levin and environs. [figure, a length scale] Approximate Scale: 100 feet to an inch. - at right - Serial No. 58031 Set No. 28 Date of photography 28.9.64 Aerosurveys – Tauranga.

Has fabric backing (for stiffness & added strength) with fabric tape around edges (to reduce damage to edges during handling) and mounted at top in steel bar (similar to those used in filing cabinets).

4th photo (of 6) on 5th ‘track’ 1 B&W photo print

Urban Levin with farmland (top right). Queenwood Road (centre left, top to bottom). Bartholomew Road (right, top to bottom). Macarthur Street (top left) & Queen Street just visible (extreme bottom right).

5th ‘track’ (6 photos) – begins at Tararua Road and ends north of Roslyn Road.

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