| Re-Enactment
at Mackaytown |
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| Miners waiting
for the Opening. 1st. Prize.
Fred Sanders Fred Harper Cyril GwiIliam |
Reading the
Declaration |
Gold Rush at
Mackaytown 1975 |
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| Armed
Constabulary |
Mr and Mrs
Sanders, Barbara Weedon, N.S.C. |
Arrival of
Karangahake Stage Coach (N. Wynn, Photos) |
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| Fielden and Ivy Thorp |
Walter Wylde, Nellie Climie |
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| Re-Enactment;
Deed of Cession Day |
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| Arrival of
Official Party
Herald Photo |
Interpreter -
Reading Deed
Mr. J. Williams as Mr Wilkinson |
Signing the Deed
Mr Tukukino and James Thorp (Mr Mackay) |
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| Maori Welcoming
Party
Gazette Photos |
Stone Cairn in
Memory of Joshua Thorp and Family
Paeroa’s first settlers 1842
Unveiled by Mr Leo Schultz MP for Coromandel Electorate
27-2-1975 |
Alfred Thorp (son
of Joshua) and Family, 1909
Back Row: Hal, Elsie, Fielden, Jessie
Front Row: Lucy, Mrs Thorp (nee Anna Horgan) with Freda,
Mr A Thorp (1842-1912) Mamie and Geoffrey |
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| Hall’s 2nd.
Farm at Pereniki Bend (Mrs Theresa Hall and Ivan) |
Bill Havill with
Harry and Len Morgan at Neavesville |
Back Row: Mr
Walter Sullivan (H.M. at Paeroa School 1885-1901), Miss Minnie Shaw.
Teacher at P. for 31 years, Fred and Jack Ritchie
Seated: Fred Shaw, Mr Jim Shaw (uncle of Shaws and
Ritchies) Mrs Sullivan (Two young ladies not known) |
| At The Pioneer
Village. (J. Reid – Photos) |
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| The Gov. Gen., Sir Dennis
BIundell, with Ena Buchanan, Gretta Locke and Mary Simpson |
Old Kitchen Utensils |
At Home in a Tent |
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| The Smithy and Assay Office
(Hamish Wilson) (Ben Gwilliam) |
Maori Craft Demonstration
Mate [Mata ? – E] Royal and Lily Te Moananui |
The Ohinemuri Store
Noeline Reid, Irene Hughes, Maurine Reid |
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| Katikati in the
Eighties, from above the Uretara Landing, McDonnell’s Hotel by the
bridge.
The highest house on left is James Lockington’s, The
group of houses on right represents the Waterford township. (P.O. Police
Station, and Gilbert’s Store on Sergeant Hyde’s Farm.) |
On Parade -
McPhee’s Team from Plains. |
Original
"Royal Mail" Hotel (1895-1912) looking west down Belmont Rd.,
Paeroa. |
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| The new "Royal Mail"
1926-, looking east toward P.O. Opened 1926. The Hotel is now the R.S.A.
clubroom (1973- |
At Doherty’s Creek Ford -
between Mackaytown and Karangahake. 1904.
Driver of Coach nearest footbridge - Michael Crosby. |
Whakapapa (Genealogy), Descent
from Tamatera (Abridged) |