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Soldiers, Trentham 1916 [P2-110-280]Hapai club 8th birthday, Rugby gymnasium; Māwai Hakona Māori concert party and audienceFire; Benge & Pratt's store, Main Street; remains.Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1972. [P2-437-863]Biggs store, Main Street; interior. [P2-939-2195]Upper Hutt railway station 1955; under constructionSchool Patrol Christmas party.Woolworths Checkers of the Year competition 1966; audienceLa De Da's, rugby gym, c. 1967Hazelwoods Women's Day fancy dress entrants.A & P show; cars; Shelly Motors' stand; Volkswagen Karmann Ghia coupeUpper Hutt Town Board office; corner of Main and Russell streetsKenneth Graham Rosson 21st.Ōrongomai Marae 1998; Waitangi open day; Māwai Hakona whanau demonstrate the art of taiaha Dunlop tyre assembly; cross-ply, small sizesArmy charter march 6, Main Street.The Upper Hutt District in the 1840s, by S.C. Brees Hazelwoods promotional booklet, May–June 1958Fire Brigade; new appliance handed over, 6 August 1938.Mounted rifles, Trentham. Line of mounted horses.Silverstream railway bridge 2 (1903-1957); distant view downstream.Main Street, Upper Hutt, January 1948 (L6)Rugby league ball; group, with trophies. [P3-418-1647]Queen Street saleyards; cattle sale. Timber industry; Campbell's Sawmills Ltd, Karapoti; experimental logging tractor on bush tramway bridge. Upper Hutt Rugby Football Club 1928; juniors.New Zealand Railways locomotive, S 0-6-4 T class; number 213Timber industry; axemen at Narrow Neck, Whiteman's Valley.Beauty pageant audience, A & P show, 1967Rimutaka Incline; goods train and surfacemen engaged in track work. [P2-18-26]St Hilda's Anglican Church 1920s?, south side of Main Street.
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Heretaunga Players; Objection Overruled: Bob Gillespie, Margaret Gillespie, Lesley Ranson, Peter Parnell.Wairarapa-class railcar Rm-8 'Mataatua'; southbound at Silverstream station.Akatarawa Road; labourers working on widening, 1930s.Mrs Grace Nicholls, awarded Queen's Service Medal for public service.Local election candidates 1989; Rimutaka Licensing Trust; Kerry Henderson; three required; fourth of seven.International Animal Week colouring competition winner Tracey Carlyon.Pinehill development; former prison staff village site; terrace-housing area plan.46th Pencarrow Brownie Pack (Upper Hutt); Teddy Bears PicnicMain Street 1988; north side 7; Para (No. 97-101), Tisdalls (105).Maidstone Pool; Circa 1980sCycling; Chris Jenner wins the Upper Hutt leg of the Tour of Welington (and the tour).Heretaunga Players; Aladdin : Geange Street; Transport Department car breaks down on Princes Street corner.King Street, east side; No. 28; Maidstone Veterinary ClinicTVL (Tasman Vaccine Laboratories) charts; packed cell volumes (%) of sheep inected with an intestinal endoparasite.Athletics; Fergusson Intermediate's Ryan Maguren. Upper Hutt School, Standard 5 Netball Team; 1924Maidstone Intermediate 1971 Sport Rugby 6st7Quinn's Post; Brian Faint's stag night; Les Tickner, manager; Brian Faint.Wedding; Brian John Pearce and Dale Susan Stewart; 4. [P1-8750-11140]Main St, Upper Hutt, Jan. 1948; south side 9, Ward-Jowitt (R16)Anne Nicholls 21st 24Maidstone Intermediate, Room 8; 1985Heretaunga Players; The Good Old Days: unknown, Faye Thorpe (?), unknown.Upper Hutt School, Staff; 2004Camp Street, Trentham; folk preparing for Camp Street Carnival Day.Briscoe debutante candids. [P1-3243-5633]Christmas parade, Stokes Valley, 2002; 68th Pencarrow Brownies.Central Institute of Technology staff; podiatry; course supervisor Jim Philps's 'The Functional Foot Orthosis' is published.Heretaunga College; senior year awards, 1986; Kathy Rose; fifth-form economics, geography, science,Leo Waikari 1997Wedding; Victor Mills, Carol Sharpe 10. [P1-8678-11068]Maidstone Intermediate, Room 18; 1981Newspaper clipping relating to the Upper Hutt City Orchestra; ca1975Upper Hutt School, Netball Team A; 1955Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1966; cave; Dopey. [P1-4771-7161]Mrs Ryan Tele Ad [P1-5651-8041]Peter McCardle, former M P, with electorate office staff members Annette Pence, Colleen Munro.General Motors factory administration building, Upper Hutt, circa 1984.Dunlops Xmas Party [P1-3744-6134]Quinn's Post Christmas party; young girl with ribbon in hair.Hazelwoods Women's Day [P1-4427-6817]Mawai Hakona 1973; Helen Rigby, Marie Isaacs, Molly Wood, Tere Hunia.Engagement; Paul Murray, Elaine Good 12. [P1-4169-6559]Higgins O'Styke wedding 15.Trentham United Athletics Club’s championships; Chris Fisher in under-11 long jump.Dunlop, England; test trackUpper Hutt Bowling Club 1984 ca 001Wedding; G. E. Davidson, Beverley Morrison 22.Plunket Ball
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