Robert Wells

 Children playing on the river bank, Mangamahu, late 1930s

  

 Group of four people sitting and standing in front 

of a 1932 Ford car at Lake Rotoehu in the 1940s

  

 View down a gravel road with Zeila Wells, wife 

of the photographer, standing beside a car, late 1930s

  

Zeila Wells crouching beside two moored row boats 

on the shore of Lake Rerewhakaaitu with a dog, 1940

  

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Robert Wells

 Five children from the Armstrong family playing 

and sliding down a bank at Woolley's Bay, 1946

  

Girls competing in a skipping race at an interschool 

sports day at Dargaville Domain, April-May 1947

  

Haymaking and baling at Morgan's farm, Aratapu, 1946

  

June and Frances Mowat moving sheep, Mangatoi Station, 1930

  

Photo of the school inspector, launch owner and eight children in a launch 

moored at the Mangatoi School jetty on the Mokau River, 1928

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Robert Wells

 Residents of female student hostel, Wellington, 1926

  

 Sheep walking along a drive followed by farmer and dogs, late 1930s

  

 Three people in a boat among reeds at Lake Rotoehu with tree in the foreground. Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, is one of the people in the boat, 1940s

  

 Wells family having lunch by the roadside while 

out picking blackberries, March-April 1947

  

Zeila Wells beside Waikato River, Atiamuri, late 1940s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Robert Wells

 Child jumping over the high jump at a school 

sports day in Dargaville Domain, 1945-46

  

 Group of unidentified tourists waiting for the ferry on the banks of the Waikato River after sightseeing at Orakei Korako, ca. 1940

  

 Large waves breaking over Mimitu rocks, August 1945

    

 The launch Rotoiti, viewed between bush, rounding a bend in the river, ca 1930

    

Wells and Jackson families at Sandy Bay, March 1946

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand