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‘Hydrabad’ wreck on Waitarere Beach, 1971 1 Colour photo print
Boys Graham (left) & Bruce (right) on seaward side of the wreck (at the missing part of the ship’s side) in the late afternoon.
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Produced from colour slide by a commercial firm in Levin.
‘Hydrabad’ wreck on Waitarere Beach, 1971 1 Colour photo print
Boys Bruce (left) & Graham (right) standing on seaward side of the wreck, in the late afternoon.
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‘Hydrabad’ wreck on Waitarere Beach, 2002 1 Colour photo print
Taken in early 2002 when only 1/2 metre of the wreck protrudes above the sand (bow or aft end ?).
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‘Hydrabad’ wreck on Waitarere Beach, 1971 1 Colour photo print
Boys Bruce (left) & Graham (right, leaning on the “tiller”) standing on the stern of the wreck, in the late afternoon.
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Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “Ship Hydrabad drifted ashore in strong westerly gale June 24, 1878. It was a fully rigged 3 masted ship of 1339 tons (1360 tonnes) 224 feet (68 m) long & 37 feet (11.3 m) wide. Partially re-floated 1879. Then abandoned. Cargo of railway engines & carriages bound for South Australia. Unloaded partially onto the beach & partially onto small ships. Foremast & crossarm stood until about 1935.”
Taken looking south, this photograph shows 6 unidentified people standing alongside the bow of the ‘Hydrabad’ shipwreck, on the seaward side (western) at Waitarere Beach 1908.
1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0047b)
This photo used in booklet – ‘Hydrabad’ by R.A. Hubbard, page 22.
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Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “Ship Hydrabad drifted ashore in strong westerly gale June 24, 1878. It was a fully rigged 3 masted ship of 1339 tons (1360 tonnes) 224 feet (68 m) long & 37 feet (11.3 m) wide. Partially re-floated 1879. Then abandoned. Cargo of railway engines & carriages bound for South Australia. Unloaded partially onto the beach & partially onto small ships. Foremast & crossarm stood until about 1935.”
‘Hydrabad’ shipwreck, at Waitarere Beach c.1908 . This photograph is taken from the base of the sand dunes looking west towards the sea.
1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0047a)
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Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “Ship Hydrabad drifted ashore in strong westerly gale June 24, 1878. It was a fully rigged 3 masted ship of 1339 tons (1360 tonnes) 224 feet (68 m) long & 37 feet (11.3 m) wide. Partially re-floated 1879. Then abandoned. Cargo of railway engines & carriages bound for South Australia. Unloaded partially onto the beach & partially onto small ships. Foremast & crossarm stood until about 1935.”
Two unidentified people, one on the ship (centre) and one on the shore, at the ‘Hydrabad’ shipwreck, Waitarere Beach c.1940. Taken from the south and showing the stern and landward side of the ship.
1 B&W photo print copy, mounted
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Ernie Gates and Dorothy Lawson. "The Wreck Book" by Steve KLocker-Lampson & Ian Francis gives a brief history of the wreck. Copyright prohibits me copying this information at present. Except to say it has been at Waitarere, since 24th June 1878.
Penciled below photo, as caption: “Summer Holidays.”
Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Hydrabad about 1930.”
View of seaward side of the shipwreck “Hydrabad”, looking north from the rear of the wreck with the tide washing against it. There are a number of people on the wreck and swimming in the sea.
1 B&W photo print, mounted
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Written on back - Chas Procter “Bones” Chas McCarthy c 1933 ? Waitarere Beach
Chas Procter and “Bones” Chas McCarthy at Waitarere Beach
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Image from c. 1965, taken on slide film by Mr. Leonard Whittington.
Provided to Libraries Horowhenua via email in 202, by Mr. Whittington's daughter. Provided in response to a 'Windback Wednesday' post on the Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō Facebook page, with other historical images of the Hydrabad wreck.
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I have recently learnt more of an incident in 1918 when a German war mine was found washed up on Hokio Beach. Photo at left shows naval officers examining the mine.
It was found on 14/11/1918(Chronicle date) well towards the present Waitarere Beach.
During World War One mines were laid by a German raider near the top of the North Island.The SS Niagra was sunk by one of the mines. Another was washed up on Otaki Beach about the same time.
Judging by a photo (above), naval officers detonated the mine.
Constable Bagrie was there as a photo (left) shows him looking for fragments in the very large crater.
The noise of the explosion startled his horse, causing it to bolt with the gig, back nearly to Hokio Beach.
Constable Greggan was transferred to Te Karaka in 1926. The transfer to this isolated station followed an incident earlier. Bill Greggan and Harry George, a member of the Acclimatisation Society drove into Levin with two black swans draped over the bonnet of their car, shot out of season. It was said to be a genuine mistake as the swan season was shorter than the duck season.
Memories are dim as to whether there was any prosecution for poaching.
In 1927 a demented Chinese man was wandering around Weraroa. Stationmaster McQueen said the Levin constable was not home, and as there was no phone at the Weraroa constable’s house, he could not call him. A clergyman detained the Chinese.
The population of the Levin Borough in 1906 was 1265; in 1916, 1630 and 1926, 2456.
The Levin police district extended beyond the borough on all sides, to Koputaroa and south of Manakau.
The borough was bounded by Beach Road, Tiro Tiro Road, Kawiu Road and the now Macarthur Street and Bartholomew Road.
In the 1920s both constables seldom wore uniforms. Most people knew them well out of uniform. They did often wear their uniforms when patrolling the business area at busy times.
The shopping area did not then extend very far past Queen Street and Bath Street in Oxford Street.
I can remember that the police in the 1920s controlled the people in the street well at busy times. If a group of people were clustered together for too long, the police would ask them to move along please and moving people were, if wandering all over the footpath, asked to keep left please.
I have been told that when Constable Bagrie was taking young criminals to borstal, he took their belts off their trousers, making it difficult to run away.
Constable Vivian J. Cosgrove was transferred to Weraroa in 1926 and after him, in 1929, Constable William J.B. Grainger was transferred to Weraroa.
He must have started the now instant fads as he had his own instant punishments such as a boot in the right place and in one incident was reputed to have thrown a too ardent a pair of lovers into the public garden pond.
Bill Grainger was replaced by Constable Bertie Warren in 1933, while John Bagrie resigned in 1933 because of ill health.
He had refused promotion to sergeant. He said the rank would not have fitted with his presence in Levin and he could have been transferred. He went off duty on July 31 on three months leave, thus completing 25 years of service in Levin. He was born in Ashburton in 1878. In his early working years he was engaged in farming pursuits.
John Bagrie joined the police force in 1900 being stationed in Christchurch for 18 months, then in Lyttleton for five years. Then in Napier for 18 months, transferring to Levin in 1908 as constable in charge.
Photo at left shows Constable John bagrie during his early years in the police force.
A function was held on August 29 1933 to mark the retirement of Constable John Bagrie and to make a presentation to him and his good lady. Tributes were paid by various functionaries of the town and district. He and his wife were presented with a grandfather clock. Mr John Bagrie died in 1935.
Waitarere Beach life guard on the surf club’s beach buggy.
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Cars on Waitarere Beach at 5.30 during the evening of 11th March 2000
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Board riders after a session in the surf at Waitarere Beach on 11th March 2000
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Penciled on back - Jill Sciascia shortly after 7am digging for Toheroa at Waitarere Beach. Mon. Sept. 15, 1969.
Stamped on back with black ink - Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. 137 Date.
See also – #.0545 also digging Toheroa on same day.
Jill Sciascia shortly after 7am digging for Toheroa at Waitarere Beach on the opening day of the Toheroa season, Monday 15 September 1969. 1 B&W photo print
See also – #.0545 also digging Toheroa on same day.
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Penciled on back - Horowhenua C.C. bulldozer operator Mr E. Kapene forms a driveway to the Levin-Waitarere Surf Lifesaving Club’s building. Sat. July 19, 1969.
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Horowhenua County Council bulldozer operator, Mr E. Kapene, forms a driveway to the Levin-Waitarere Surf Lifesaving Clubs’ building. 1 B&W photo print
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Children on the beach at Waitarere looking towards Kapiti Island on 17th March 2000
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Cyclists on Waitarere Beach on Carnival Day, 17th March 2000
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Two trotters at Waitarere Beach Carnival on 17th March 2000
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Surfers on Waitarere Beach with Kapiti Island in the background on 17th March 2000
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Part of the crowd at the Waitarere Beach Carnival on 17th March 2000
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Life Guards keep watch from their beach buggy at Waitarere Beach on Carnival Day 17th March 2000
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Two surf skis used by the Levin Waitarere Life Guard, on the sand at Waitarere Beach on 17th March 2000
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Tyre tracks in the wet sand at Waitarere Beach on Carnival Day on 17th March 2000
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People enjoying the sun and sea at Waitarere Beach on Carnival Day on 17th March 2000
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A surfer leaves the water at Waitarere Beach with Kapiti Island in the background
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