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Crowd outside the Commercial Hotel, Murchison
Date: 1920s
Reference: 1/2-110690-F
Description: Crowd clustered around the Commercial Hotel in Murchison. There are cars parked in a line behind the crowd. Taken by an unidentified photographer from across the road opposite during the 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
View of the Commercial Hotel, Murchison
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 6
Reference: PAColl-5932-54
Description: View of the Commercial Hotel in Murchison. There is a horse and cart travelling past the hotel towards the photographer. Taken by an unidentified photographer diagonally opposite the hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Two rows of Newman's buses filled with passengers, Murchison
Date: 14 May 1929
From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district
Reference: 1/1-011440-G
Description: Two rows of Newman's buses and service cars filled with passengers, Murchison. The vehicles are parked in parallel lines. One line is parked outside Ross's Hotel and the other outside McNee & Co. The Commercial Hotel can be seen on the corner diagonally across from the photographer. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones during the 1920s. Occasion identified as a tour of Canterbury farmers around the Motueka and Riwaka areas (Papers Past, Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1929, similar photograph in New Zealand Herald, 19 June 1929) Formerly identified as 1927 Royal Tour by Duke and Duchess of York. (Very similar photograph published in Graeme Carter's book Travelling with Newmans (Wanganui, GT Carter Travelling Books, 2006), pp. 16-17 has idenified it as this); and as buses carrying passengers from Kawatiri who had arrived by train to mark the opening of the Glenhope-Kawatiri section of railway and who were transported to lunch to Murchison by Newmans Service Cars. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Street scene in Murchison, Tasman region
Date: 1929
From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district
Reference: 1/1-011855-G
Description: Street scene in the town of Murchison, Tasman region. Looks along an unsealed road, showing parked cars, and buildings, on both sides of the street. The Commercial Hotel is on the left. McNee and Co, general merchants, is on the right. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones in 1929. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative