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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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Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm

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jamica1 said:
claustrophobes need not apply!
jamica1 said:
You say in the caption 5 December 2017. Do you perhaps mean 1917?
Antonio R. Tabares said:
jamica1 👍

Sailing ship Chance, aground at Bluff, 1902

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John Hughes said:
Fascinating picture. Anyone know what the wind turbine was for - bilge pump, or below decks ventilation?
Terrific Lake said:
great shot
Translated Poorly said:
The wind turbine is most likely for a electric generator, atleast in some ships of the same age.
John Hughes said:
Yes, electric generator I think it must be. I was recently reading how Nansen had one installed aboard Fram on his drift across the north polar ice-cap in the 1890s.
Copper Kettle said:
Interesting. Maybe as oil becomes scarce there again will be ships propelled by sail, with wind and solar generators to power the automatic rigging systems, navigation, etc.

Sailing ship Alcestis being towed from rocks where she had run aground, probably in Otago Harbour, 1880s

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stormchaser_nz said:
Looks like the vessel is being towed off the southwest end of Quarantine Island (St Martins) in the middle of the Otago Harbour
mambo1935 said:
good shot!
b0b said:
exquisite find, love the slow smoke trail, that steamer is trying hard
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