Places

Date: [ca 1931]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: PAColl-6761

Description: 30 views of floats in a Napier parade including: two of the Napier Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club's float showing members in the club kit on bicycles; Henry Williams & Sons (hardware) float, showing four men with a bathroom suite; Briascos Ltd's float decorated to look like a boat; a Hawke's Bay Motor Company Ltd Model T Ford decorated and full of 4 people in fancy dress; a horse and carriage and a truck passing the police station; a float advertising different kinds of shoes sponsored by a number of local shoe retailers; a Williams & Creagh truck with a number of people in fancy dress; an old car in which the back axle has been moved forward causing it to tip up again with people in fancy dress; a Piper & Co float with a display of their sails on a small boat followed by a float for Taradale Vineyards; a spoof fire truck; a Vulcan foundry float showing a complete workshop; a float advertising Queen Anne chocolates; Warath Tea Garden float covered in flowers; group of young people in pill box hats in front of a float; Napier Golf Club float inlcuding regulations signs; float advertising Sunny Spain; a Max Studio float with a group of young girls holding stars; a rugby team's float; a float labelled Wairere; four men dressed as druids with a float carrying standing stones; Te Awa Ex-Puplils' Association float with a group of them in sports clothes or fancy dress; Smith and Smith Ltd float showing paint samples; Engineers, Boilermakers and Iron and Brass Founders float; two children on tricycles decorated with flowers; a Swan bacon float; Napier Gas Company float with a display on gas cooking; two of children in fancy dress one pushing a relief workers wheelbarrow; a man on a horse advertising Griffiths shoes; and Taradale Hotel after the earthquake. Photographer was Henry Norford Whitehead. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028782 to 028784, 1/4-028809 to 028818, 029318 to 029320, 029352, 029373, 029390, 029394, 029396, 029410 to 029412, 029580 to 029581, 029592, 029611, 029665, 029666, and 095742 to 095743. Quantity: 32 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives