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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).