IMAGE
View of Kawhia, Otorohanga District
- Date
- [ca 1920s]
- Reference
- 1/2-065917-F
- Description
View of the township at Kawhia on the inner north-western shoreline of the Kawhia Harbour, Otorohanga District. Shows the general store (Ward's Hall) and various buildings on the waterfront, boats in the sand, and a large Pohutukawa tree growing on the hill above the bay. Photograph taken circa 1920s, by an unidentified photographer.
Additional information about the two storied buldling supplied by a researcher 'Two-storey building in foreground with Ward Bros sign was built in 1903 by Scott. It had a business on the ground floor and a hall above known as Scott's Hall. In 1923 WP Ward purchased the building on behalf of Ward Bros (engineering & plumbing) and the hall was later referred to as Ward's Hall. The hall was used as a cinema from about 1914 until the early 1950s' August 2022
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Beaglehole, D :Negatives relating to Sir Peter Buck, Maori fishing, the Mokau River and Kawhia
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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