The New Zealanders keep coming. Mr. Adkin was apparently quite the Renaissance man: he was a farmer, geologist, archaeologist, ethnologist,
photographer, tramper and environmentalist. As an amateur scholar he
made a significant contribution to the study of natural sciences in New
Zealand.
A girl, wearing a smocked dress and a bonnet, standing next to a baby in a pram
Armistice Day parade in Levin, 13 November 1918
Crowd at a swimming carnival on the beach,
Island Bay, Wellington, 9 March 1918
Girls on the wreck of the Hydrabad, Waitarere Beach, 1905
Taueki family fishing for eels on Lake Horowhenua aboard the
Hamaria canoe, the last war canoe on the lake, 6 June 1926
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
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