IMAGE
Launch and boat on Mokau River
- Date
- 1930
- Reference
- PAColl-0001-2-1-080
- Description
Motor launch and boat with outboard motor, photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells.
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Mokau River 1930; Verso - centre - A rendez-vous just below the Old Mine at the place called "The Mine Clearing" at that time overgrown with huge, luscious blackberries. To fill a 4 gallon tin, took only 45 minutes. I was there and tried it. This is the boat which I had to row 1 mile, upstream and downstream, each day, in 1927/28 (until I bought an outboard motor) for the sum of 6d per day - "ferry allowance" for taking 2 boys to and from school each day! And, out of this princely sum, I was required to keep the boat in good repair. When new ribs were required I went into the bush, cut down rata vines, sawed them down the middle, and then rivetted them in place! Those were the days!
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 20.1 x 25.3 cm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: The original negative from which this print is made is 1/4-057818-F.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand / Photographs of the Mokau River district
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Negatives, Gelatin silver prints, Landscape photographs, Gelatin silver print 20.1 x 25.3 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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