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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.Soldiers, Trentham 1916 [P2-110-280]
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Barton family; Hannah Barton; wife of Richard. [P1-415-2165]Merton Street drainage before the addition of 5 pipes at end of July. Y.M.C.A Photograph Album; Page 32; College Boy's Group Weekend Camp; 1957Garden competition; Chichester Drive, Silverstream, best residential street.General Motors Xmas Party [P1-4089-6479]Silverstream Kindergarten 051Upper Hutt College 1982; form 4.4Bogg Wedding [P1-7492-9882]Upper Hutt School Room 5; 2003Brown Owl School; J1 and J2 road safety.Marion Bayne, with 18-month-old David; wanting early intervention in the normalising of handicapped children.Silverstream Volunteer Fire Brigade; awards; 1966; 35th anniversary and triple Gold Stars celebrationBonanza Flooring's Scott Julius; 3-day 'gigantic rug bazaar' returning to Maidstone Mall.Hazelwoods and Poulsons (Lowry Bay); Hilda Poulson, left?Rev. Ann Thomas appointed to Upper Hutt Co-operating Parish, succeeding Graeme McIver.Dunlop people; Denny Grey, maintenance foremanBoulevard House, Fergusson Drive; architect'd drawingSavage Crescent Kindergarten Xmas [P1-5716-8106]Council staff; promotion manager; Paul Lambert, Road safety; seat-belt slogan competition; joint winning entries held by Janelle Foster.Wedding; Kenneth Cherry, Beverley Williams 13. [P1-8861-11251]1931 Napier earthquake 009Charity.T Moon 21st [P1-5404-7794]Brown Owl School 1978 Room 1; Mr. Donald.Aerial view 1955 looking south-west; Gibbons Street in the foregroundRailways; Upper Hutt station; northbound Drewry Fiat-engined 88-seat railcar approaching.Oxford Crescent School; Victoria Burton, Keri Potter, Chelsea Cresswell and autumn leaves from the oak trees.Mawai Hakona; date, people and place unidentifiedUpper Hutt senior second division grade winners; 1960Scouting; jamboree sign at Trentham Park; secretary Rob McKnight, City Council chief executive Ray Tucker.Dawn Garments factory opening. [P1-2910-5300]Heretaunga Players; MirandaTrentham racecourse; parked cars and charabancs, 1919. [P2-35-95] Dunlop tread extrusion; first line; extruder head - lower half.Wedding; Howland, Fogarty 3. [P1-4963-7353]St Brendan's School students on World Smokefree DayScouts; Ronald Prince awarded Chief Scout's Commendation for nine years' service, including five as a leader.Military Service, World War II; Italy; Rome; monument to Vittorio Emmanuel II, first king of a united Italy.Covid-19 testing clinic, Fergusson Drive (2 of 2)Jim Gasson [P1-4034-6424]Wedding; Victor Mills, Carol Sharpe 23. [P1-7769-10159]Upper Valley Tramping Club group at Powell Hutt, Tararuas.Heretaunga/Pinehaven District councillors Roger Anderson, Anselm Guise, Roy Tombs.General Motors Xmas Party [P1-4106-6496]Main Street; No. 110; Angus Wheeler Limited, next to the BNZ.Harcourt Park House; Circa 1980sSavage Crescent Kindergarten Xmas [P1-5754-8144]Heretaunga Players; Mrs.Thally F: director Beverly Mills.Borton-Everingham wedding 13. [P1-3323-5713]
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