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Tuapeka Times: Tuapeka election; Mr C C Rawlins' candidature. Address to electors in To...
Date: 1893
By: Tuapeka times (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-C-POLITICS-1893-01
Description: Text extract from a newspaper describes a political campaign meeting at Lawrence. "The hall was densely crowded, there being fully five hundred people present, including about one hundred ladies, who gave attentive ear to the utterances of the candidate". Mr Rawlins discussed rhe Railways, the liquor question, labor measures, lands for settlement, rabbits, the Legislative Council, mining, education, taxation and free trade. The text is taken from the Tuapeka Times, 4 November 1895, page 5 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 520 x 367 mm.
Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa
Date: 1893
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-550-34-1
Description: Original caption reads: "Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa". Shows a horse drawn carriage, and an unidentified group of men and women standing by the entrance to a building. Taken in 1893, by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "Bruce Herald, No 24, 1893 published Polling Places for Electoral District of Clutha. No 6: Dabinett and Young's store, Tauhuokupu. [sic]." Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Women vote at their first election at Takakopa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.2 x 15.2 cm, on album page 24.2 x 17.5 cm