Police stations - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region
Police Station, Pahiatua
Date: 22 August 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129282-F
Description: Related index card reads: Buildings. Pahiatua. Police Station. 22 August 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative
[Smith, William Mein] 1799-1869 :The town of Petre on the Wanganui River in September 1...
Date: 1841
From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.
By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869
Reference: PUBL-0011-05
Description: A general and close-up view of the new settlement of Petre or Wanganui (also known as Whanganui) just after its establishment. The thatched roofing of a house is being completed by two men in the foreground and men are hauling timber for other buildings along the foreshore and from a small boat at the river's edge. Fences divide off other houses and the nearest house on the far left, middle distance is identified as Dr Peter Wilson's house, the building being thatched is the Police Office and Police Magistrate's house, a larger one is Mr E. J. Wakefield's house (ware Wikitoria), and two other are Mr Henry Churton's houses. The large cliff across the river is Shakespeare's Cliff. The accompanying text reads: This is four miles from the mouth of the river, on the north shore of Cook's Strait, 110 miles from Wellington. The snowy mountain to the extreme left is Tonga Riro [Tongariro], seventy miles distant. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 369 mm
Bell Street, Wanganui, with houses and police station
Date: [ca 1870s]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/1-000280-G
Description: Bell Street, Wanganui, circa 1870s, showing houses and the police station. Photograph taken by William James Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative