Heretaunga Golf Club album

Photograph album relating to New Zealand Golf Championships, 1911 and 1912, in Heretaunga and Nelson. Some photographs are inscribed "Zak" [Joseph Zachariah] but otherwise photographers are unidentified.

Photographs of New Zealand Championship in October 1911 at Heretaunga include group portraits, photographs taken on the links during the competition (including spectators), and the surrounds (river, golf house). Portraits of competitors include Miss L Brandon (New Zealand Champion 1911), Mrs G Williams (winner "Mellsop" Cip 1911), Mrs Orbell, Miss Wray, Mrs Cllins, Miss Vida Collins, and Agnes Isobel Pearce. Also includes some group photographs. Governor-General John Dickson-Poynder is photographed during the competition and presenting the trophy to Miss L Brandon.

Photographs of the New Zealand Championship of 1912 in Nelson are also included. They show shipboard scenes of travelling to the competition on board the SS 'Pateena', photographs of Vida Collins and Agnes Pearce playing, relaxing, and releasing a carrier pigeon. Also include photographs of the men's 1912 competition at Heretaunga.

Other identified people are R P Abraham and M Burnes.

Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 56 b&w prints.

Physical Description: Grey card photograph album with arrow illustration, 23 x 27.6