Postcard, Turning First Sod East Coast Railway, Tauranga
Maker
Robert Meers
Production date
1910
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Description
Sepia real photo postcard. Group of local people watching the turning of the first sod of the East Coast railway with a gold spade. Writing on the back "Turning of first sod in East Coast Railway Tauranga, The Camp by Sir Roderick McKenzie, Canon Jordan, Mayor, Col. Ward presenting gold spade T.S. Price & Elsie. Constable Skinner."
Maker
Robert Meers
Production date
1910
Production place
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Accession number
0022/16
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