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Group with the aeroplane 'Faith in Australia' on Ninety Mile Beach, 1934

  

Gum diggers playing cards in camp, ca. 1910

  

Lunchtime on the gumfields, ca. 1910

  

 Postmistress, Miss Sophie Mathews, at the 

door of the Kaitaia Post Office, ca. 1915

  

Unidentified group of women and children in a gum 

digging village in the Northland Region, ca. 1910

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Group outside a thatched wooden hut, ca. 1930

  

 

Items washed up from the wreck of the ship Forrest Hall 

on Ninety Mile Beach, February 1909

  

The Forrest Hall broke up in the heavy waves and most of her cargo was unable to be salvaged. The shipwreck occurred in controversial circumstances, with the ship running directly on to the beach in broad daylight. A subsequent commission of inquiry raised issues of drunkenness and insurance fraud, but ultimately found the captain guilty of gross negligence.

    

Nita Lomba on horseback with a sack of mail; 

the Paranui to Mangonui postal service, ca. 1910

  

 

Settlement, beach and young girl, Ahipara, 1 August 1913

  

Three Maori girls shelling toheroa on a beach, 1910-39

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Maori woman with a catch of fish, Northland Region, ca. 1910

 

Maori women working with fern roots

 

Men in a row-boat on Houhora Harbour, Northland region, 1930s

 

Nicholas Covich's gumfield and diggers, Ahipara Hill, Northland region, ca. 1930

 

Ranganui, Otamatea County, ca, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Group in sand dunes at Ninety Mile Beach, Northland, 1930s

  

Group of Maori children at a wedding, Pamapuria, Kaitaia, Northland, ca. 1912

  

Lord Jellicoe picnicking at 90 Mile Beach, january 1924

[Lord Jellicoe is almost certainly this guy]
  

Maori children, Northland, ca. 1910s

  

Maori group digging for toheroa on a beach, Northland, ca. 1920s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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 Corduroy road through native bush, Northland region, ca. 1900s-1930s

  

 Dargaville street scene, ca. 1920s

  

 District nurse weighing a baby, Northland, 1930s

  

 Group in Okahu Bush, near Kaitaia, taking a break from felling trees, 1934

  

Horse pulling a crate of grapes, 1920s

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Northwood Brothers

They were a family of photographers in New Zealand. The father, Richard Arthur Northwood, was a pharmacist who encouraged his sons to take up photography. Three of them did: Arthur James, Richard Alfred, and Hubert Charles.

 A fisherman stands in the shallows holding his large catch 

on his back. A dog, probably his, stands close. ca. 1915

  

 Automobiles carrying the "Winterless north" tour 

in Commerce Street, Kaitaia. 21 January 1917

  

 Boating party, Northland, ca. 1910s

   

 Broadwood Saddle road, Hokianga County, ca. 1930s

   

Commerce Street, Kaitaia, showing horse-drawn carts, early 1900s