Mayor and Mayoress of Petone, New Zealand, Mr and Mrs Ralph Love

Mayor and Mayoress of Petone, New Zealand, Mr Ralph Love and and Mrs Flora Love, photographed at their Korokoro home, with Petone in the background. Photographed circa 11 October 1965 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer.

Published in the Evening Post newspaper, 11 October, page 32 with the title "No Apartheid in Petone", and the caption: "Petone's new Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs Ralph Love, against a panorama, from their Korokoro home, of the borough of which they are now first citizens. Petone showed the essence of democracy at the polls - a Maori Mayor, a Chinese councillor at the top of the poll, and a Maori, Mr Love's son, Ralph, second in the poll..."

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 5.6 x 5.6 cm