IMAGE
Radio station, Awanui
- Date
- 1919
- Reference
- 1/1-010618-G
- Description
Radio station V.L.A., Awanui. Shows officers' quarters, officer-in-charge's quarters, and station in distance. A woman with a boy on horseback stand in Wireless Road in the foreground. Photograph taken 1919 by Northwood brothers.
Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print
Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the radio station as being at Awanui, not Kaitaia. He also gave the opening and closing dates, the name of the road it was on as well as other historical information relating to the station. Information recieved January 2011.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A Northwood protected 1-9-19
Opened 18 December 1913 and closed 10 February 1930. In 1927 was redesignated Z.L.A. Awanui. New Zealand's first high power spark tranmitter radio telegraph station for ship to shore communication making use of morse code. Was one of a number of ship to shore radio stations established in New Zealand in the period 1911-1913.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate negatives, Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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