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Members of the Waikanae Beach Society of 1924 are shown in that year meeting the then Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, at the beach.
From left (at back), are Messrs G. C. Nunns (later M. P. for Roskill), R. D. B. Robinson (Town Clerk), A. J. Cox, D. S. Jamieson, T. Corson, H. H. Barker, -, C. E. Robinson, F. R. Ball, A. Cameron, F. Cassin, H. Wyles, G. A. Nicholls, (centre), Mesdames E. Stevenson, A. Gray, H. Pope, W. D. Lysnar, (front), Mr H. H. De Costa, Mr MaSsey, Messrs T. Adair (Chairman of the Society), W. D. Lysnar, (M.P.), K. S. Williams (later Minister of Works), and G. M. Reynolds (Cook County Chairman).
The only survivors of the group are Messrs Cox, Barker, Ball and Nicholls.

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A far cry from the wool trucking system of today is this method of transporting wool in the earlier days. Horses and dray bringing out wool in the Matawai district in 1925.