Local photographer Jacob Brookie took this picture in September of 2022- local election season! This scene is of the Seaview Gardens, at the base of the Foxton water tower on Main Street. The signs seen here belonged to candidates for Mayor, Council and the Te Awahou Foxton Community Board. Some of these faces were successful in their bid for office, others less so.
Jacob used a 1956 Lipca Rollop Automatic camera to take this picture.
'Columbus' was the 'house brand' of the Radio Corporation of New Zealand Limited- a New Zealand company. Just as radio travels over waves so did the company's logo. Signs like this one would have been displayed by all retailers of Columbus radios. This radio range was sold from 1937 until 1961.
Radio Corporation of New Zealand Limited also founded TANZA- New Zealand's very first local record label in 1949. In fact, New Zealand made radios were popular right up until the late 1980s. But Columbus had set sail over the horizon by then.
You can see this sign in person at MAVtech- a technology museum located in Foxton's Coronation Hall. You'll also see lots of Columbus radios as well!
Sign from the Poroutawhao Flour Mill at the Horowhenua Vintage Car Club.
The original mill was built by the Roman Catholic Missionary Fr. Jean Baptise Comte in 1850, for Ngāti Huia.
Surviving pieces of the original Poroutawhao Flour Mill on the northern side of Paeroa Road were salvaged by the late J.O. Stewart in the early 1980s. Donated to the Horowhenua Vintage Car Club in 2008, to restore and house.
The restoration was completed in 2013 and opened by Mrs. Gae Stewart on the 26 January 2014.
0011 HJP 0373 HHL Group building, Part of NZ Care group 92 Cambridge street, Levin 17-3-2019
