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In the 1850s Auckland province offered 40 acres (16 hectares) for any immigrant to the province who was likely to become a 'useful colonist', plus another 20 acres (8 hectares) for any child aged five to 18. Such immigration advertising helped to establish the idea that New Zealand was a pastoral...

Patrons enjoy an early evening drink at Christchurch’s Hereford Street pie cart, around 1952. The pie cart (usually actually a caravan) succeeded the coffee cart as the night owl’s eatery, and by the 1930s was a fixture in most cities. It served steaming mugs of tea and coffee, and the ...

When diggers returned to their huts, there was still work to be done – the tedious but necessary task of scraping the oxidised crust off the gum. Unscraped kauri gum sold for much less than scraped gum. In the evenings by candlelight, and on Sundays, diggers would use a knife to scrape off ...

NAC, Sunderland Flying Boat, Hobsonville, West Auckland

Corner dairies were the centre of life in the suburbs on weekends from the 1940s to the 1980s when most other stores were closed. The Wellington St dairy in Freeman's Bay, Auckland, is seen here in 1980. Dairies often had prominent advertising on signs or walls for one of the products they ...

At Goldies Bush in the Waitākere Ranges in the early 1920s, this kauri dam has just been tripped and the logs are hurtling downstream in a flood of water.

Freemans Bay, a hillside suburb between Ponsonby and the harbour, was where Auckland’s poor were concentrated at the start of the 20th century. This jumble of small, cheaply built and insanitary slum houses prompted a press campaign to move its residents into low-cost suburban housing.

Map showing the abundance of vineyards in the Henderson area in 1958. Corbans had the largest area under vines on both sides of Great North Rd and at Valley Rd. The only vineyards that remain in this area today are Babich and Mazuran. Many have moved out to Kumeu/Huapai.

A " BIRD'S-LYE" VIEW OF THE NEW TRANSMITTING STATION Looking down on the transmitting station from the top of the 508 ft. mast for station IYA at Henderson.

Parts of NZ are currently experiencing major problems with the 'Three Waters' ie wastewater, stormwater and drinking water.

Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Note on negative sleeve reads: Ranui Orchards, Mrs J Bosson Special. Quantity: 1 b&w original...

Detail from DP 670, originally dated 1888, LINZ records (crown copyright) The question, "Why Lincoln Road?" came up when a reader of the Avondale Historical Journal contacted me recently asking about the origins of the name. What we now know as Lincoln Road, the long drive from Henderson township up towards either the North-Western motorway, SH16, or the turnoffs towards Massey and Ranui, is an old road. Older than its name actually. It existed from 1866 at least, when Thomas Henderson sold…

1960s?

1 WAITAKERE PARK TO BE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL Map of the Waitakere Ranges. The line-shaded portion indicates the 10,000-acre area which is tentatively suggested as the Metropolitan Local Bodies' combined centennial memorial. Cascade Park, Cornwallis Park and the smaller unshaded areas adjacent to the city water reserves will eventually fc'e incorporated in the memorial park.