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New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic: Send us a six o'clock closing rhyme. 10 would not be a moderate hour; to vote for six is in your power. Referendum March Nine ... Wright & Carman, 127 Vivian Street, Wellington [1949] uploaded October 2017
New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic: The big brewers want 10 p.m. and bigger profits...Vote for six as closing time. [1949]. uploaded October 2017
Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm uploaded October 2017
Bath houses at Hot Springs Hotel, Waiwera uploaded September 2015
Opera House (Auckland) :Potter-Bellew season. Lessees & Managers Messrs Williamson & Musgrove / Wil R Barnes, designer. [Programme cover. 1897]. uploaded September 2015
Wardell Bro[ther]s & Co. :Monthly price current. [List of teas, confectionery, etc.] August 1893. uploaded September 2015
Young, H W, fl 1898-1901 :Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition. Certificate of merit. 1st class award to Gear Meat Pres[er]v[in]g & Freez[in]g Co. Ltd. H W Young des. Lithographed at the 'Star' Printing Works, Auckland, N.Z. 1898-1899. uploaded September 2015
Band rotunda at Greymouth uploaded September 2015
View of the gardens behind the Wanganui Racecourse, with swans on a lake uploaded September 2015
Briscoe & Co Ltd :A residence, Invercargill, with Marseilles Tile roof. From the extreme south to the sunny north of New Zealand, the Marseilles Roofing Tile has found its way. It will suit any climate. [1906-1908]. uploaded September 2015
C J W Griffiths, auctioneer :Bankrupt stock! In accordance with instructions received Mr C J W Griffiths will sell by public auction at his rooms, Market Place, Blenheim, at 12 o'clock noon, on Saturday next, June 7th, one of the largest and most varied s uploaded September 2015
Herbert Ernest Hart on horseback, Bruck, Germany uploaded September 2015
Post and Telegraph Office, Thames uploaded September 2015
View of Lake House, Takapuna uploaded September 2015
Mangahoe Bridge, Te Awamutu uploaded September 2015

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Aerial view of Johnsonville, Wellington, 1939

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chrisbwah said:
Took me ages to work out which way this is looking, but I suspect it's south. The main road in the centre is J'ville road, the gorge is the small track going off towards 11 o'clock with Fraser Ave continuing straight ahead and then bending right. Broderick Rd is the road going off to the right where it will cross the rail lines visible in the bottom right.
National Library NZ on The Commons said:
Thank you! I took one look at it and thought "oohhh, that's too hard for me to identify...."

-- Courtney
Jessica Durham said:
I can see my house! I've been trying to find an aerial view in the same direction from the 1920s too but no luck yet

Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s

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199 older comments, and then…
Robert Carrier said:
Wow. What a phenomenal photograph.
Lucy said:
wonderful
Jonathan Stiles said:
Often those young lads fell from the yards, either into the sea or onto the deck. They hoped for the latter as that way death would be more immediate. If they fell into the sea there was zero chance of rescue. The ship sailed on.
Terrific Lake said:
best shot
Jonathan Stiles said:
Imagine that ship pitching and yawing . . . . they'd experience being lifted and dropped dozens of feet: it would be hard to stay on! A very good account of what that life was like is written in autobiographical form by Eric Newby in "The Last Grain Race."