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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]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.
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Upper Hutt Bowling Club 1975-1980 001Heretaunga College staff; deputy head Graeme Jarrett, to succeed Les Nation in 1990.Rugby; Wellington Rugby Football Union chief executive Tim McMahon.Upper Hutt School, Netball Team D; 1958Van Der Togt wedding 11. [P1-8820-11210]21st birthday; Marilyn Scott. [P1-5783-8173]Former Students of Mungaroa School; 1979Post Office picnic, Maidstone Park, 1939Father (later, Monsignor) Norman S Pettit celebrates 40 years since ordination.Dunlop people; unidentified; Norm Whysall ('Yorkie'); unidentified.Upper Hutt Rugby Football Club 75th JubileeTraffic Officers Training College; time capsule being filled by Bill Jeffries before being sealed by commandant Dave Walter.Tony Mason with friend and Triumph 'Spitfire', at 21st? [P1-5316-7706]John Ward antique sale; 806 Fergusson Drive.Maoribank School; Helen Corby one of six teachers to win ASG National Excellence in Teaching award Swimming Club; Whitney Tapurau, Gemma Blaikie win medals at the Wellington Open Swimming Champs.Ōrongomai Marae 1977; hall opening; Hera Katene-Horvath; 'Aunty Dovey' and Māwai Hakona.Heretaunga Players; Fumed Oak: Cyndy Tuson, Ken Cotton, Evelyn Lee.Trentham School 1974 Prs Rm20Eric Brown receives Civic Award; founder of the Upper Hutt Art Club, and its president for 17 years.Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1966; cave; Happy, Sleepy.Anthony boys. [P1-6627-9017]Police; Community Constable Kerry FentonChatsworth Road 45, February 1969.Dunlop people; Faith Green; secretary/typistHeretaunga College staff; science and computing teacher Andrew Rowney.Silverstream Volunteer Fire Brigade; new station formal opening; November 1974; speaker Fred Stringer, Station OfficerWhiteman's Road area flood alleviation scheme; 2.1-metre-diameter pipes being laid.Silver Plough ploughing match 1969.Dunlop raw materials; ingredients; aromatic oil tanks, and effects of spillsDawn Garments Christmas Party; ?, ?, Mrs and Mr Archibald.Fireworks safety programme supported by The WarehousePam Killalea Collection 11Pempsey St, looking east towards Heretaunga Square 1961Rugby League Ball [P1-2149-4539]A & P Ball 1969Heretaunga College; stormwater drain; lowering 54" / 8s pipes; Ward Street in the background.Ōrongomai Marae 2003; Waitangi open day; Samoans from Our Lady of Grace churchLitsa Papageorge's christening. [P1-6724-9114]Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1966; cave; Grumpy. [P1-4418-6808]Upper Hutt Municipal Band, 1931Upper Hutt School, unidentified class; 1952Old house; Barton homestead album 8; 'The Manor House', Trentham; old ship's cannon.Heretaunga Players; Sweeney Todd; Royce Doyle, Wendy Evans.Upper Hutt College Student Leaders 1994Upper Hutt School, Netball Team A; 1955Whitemans Road; safety problem at Silverstream School; parents using New World supermarket car park.Kings Empire Veterans Ladies Upper Hutt RSA 021Pearce/Stewart engagement; 1966. [P1-6026-8416]Probus Upper Hutt 30th Anniversary 005
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