No. 1 Company, leaving their annual camp at Marshland

April 1913

This was the first time that motor cars had been used in military manoeuvres in New Zealand. The No. 1 Company of New Zealand Territorial Engineers were transported to their annual camp in 28 taxicabs supplied by Messrs A.W. Smith and Co. from their garage in Worcester Street. The men arrived at their camping ground ready to undertake any amount of military work at once, with no long march to tire them. The photograph shows the cars drawn up and loaded ready to leave camp for town, the journey of eight miles being accomplished in just over half-an-hour

Area: North / Marshland

Source: The weekly press, 24 April 1912, p. 31

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Linwood School class portrait

1916

Class portrait of a standard III class at Linwood School.

Contributor’s note: Father in photo – Frederick Hardy Cookson. (Twin Walter Nelson died at war. [illegible] Battle of [illegible].”

Area: East / Linwood

Contributor: John Cookson

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William John Mitchell and friend

1911

On the left is my great grandfather William John Mitchell, aged 18. The person on the right is unknown. Avon river, Christchurch. Taken in 1911 by F. W. Hulme, Avon Photographer.

Creator: F. W. Hulme

Area: Other / Unknown

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Phillip Rousham tending to his plants

About 1910s

Portrait of Phillip Rousham, who is the former custodian of Waihora Park (Motukarara Domain), with an unidentified man tending plants in his nursery. Contributor’s note: “Rousham was a talented gardener and plant breeder. His nursery later became the DOC nursery still in Waihora Park”.

Area: Banks Peninsula / Lake Ellesmere / Little River

Contributor: Marie Byrne

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