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Pictures from the Past
From Mr G. A. Smith, Hexton, we have two pictures of life in Poverty Bay in the early days.
Sam Johnson (right), winner of the world's champion chop, finishes his log at the Axemen's Carnival at Eltham in 1912. A bushworker of great renown, he spent 20 years in Gisborne, from 1908 to 1928.
From Mr W. Gordon, 13 Norman Road, comes this picture of one of Gisborne's heaviest snowfalls. This one took place on July 27, 1939, and the picture shows some of the snow, inches deep on the paths in the Botanical Gardens.
In this photograph taken at Rakauroa, Mr Smith's uncle, Frank Smith (on the left), is shown with a group, and a konaki which was used like a dray. Frank Smith was the son of Mr and Mrs G. A. Smith, Whakarau, and Mrs Smith was the first white woman to settle at Whakarau.
, winner of the worlds champion chop, finishes his log at the Axemens Carnival at Eltham in 1912. A bushworker of great renown, he spent 20 years in Gisborne, from 1908 to 1928.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}
, winner of the worlds champion chop, finishes his log at the Axemens Carnival at Eltham in 1912. A bushworker of great renown, he spent 20 years in Gisborne, from 1908 to 1928.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}
, winner of the worlds champion chop, finishes his log at the Axemens Carnival at Eltham in 1912. A bushworker of great renown, he spent 20 years in Gisborne, from 1908 to 1928.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}
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, is shown with a group, and a konaki which was used like a dray. Frank Smith was the son of Mr and Mrs G. A. Smith, Whakarau, and Mrs Smith was the first white woman to settle at Whakarau.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}
, is shown with a group, and a konaki which was used like a dray. Frank Smith was the son of Mr and Mrs G. A. Smith, Whakarau, and Mrs Smith was the first white woman to settle at Whakarau.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}
, is shown with a group, and a konaki which was used like a dray. Frank Smith was the son of Mr and Mrs G. A. Smith, Whakarau, and Mrs Smith was the first white woman to settle at Whakarau.\r\n\r\nGisborne Photo News - No 173 : November 6, 1968'); void 0){kind=link}