IMAGE
New Zealand Perpetual Forests Ltd: Photographs showing the development of New Zealand's premier afforestation company. Photographs taken August 1929. Wilson & Horton Limited, Auckland [1929]
- Date
- 1929
- By
- New Zealand Perpetual Forests Ltd; Wilson & Horton (Firm)
- Reference
- Eph-C-FOREST-1929-01
- Description
Broadsheet shows photographs of a nursery with Maori women lifting and sorting trees ready for planting, young trees 1-2 years old, one of the 28 caretakers' residences, a broad view of planting in 1925 on the Maraetai Block, and in 1924 on the Afforestation block. Also shows 15 year old trees on the Putaruru block. At the lower edge are details of the capital required (250,000 pounds), the likely returns, and the addresses of offices in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, great Britain and India.
The Smith Wylie Group and NZ Perpetual Forests developed afforestation in Putaruru and Maraetai in the 1920s.
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph, 453 x 311 mm.
Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed at MS-Group-2053, Oral History and Photographic Archive..
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Photolithograph, 453 x 311 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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