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A get-together sometime in 1910, Whangaparapara.
Photo- John Da Silva.  
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Phone directory for Whangaparapara 1920, 1925 and 1927.
1920

Whangaparapara

Anderson, Daniel       gumdigger

Betridge, Mrs. J.

Blake, Mrs. Alice

Dodd, Leonard John

Gascoine,  Geo.           storekeeper.

Harrison, William       labourer

Kauri Timber Company

McMillan, D.              miner

Osborne, H.                gumdigger

Paddison, Jas. E.         farmer

Ravenhill, R.               postmaster

Robinson, George       labourer

Rogers, J.                    yard hand

Stephens, William    

Thomson, David         caretaker

 

1925

Whangaparapara

Aikman, Wm.             farmer

Betridge, Mrs. Jane,    settler

Curreen, Wm.             farmer

Gascoine, Geo.           store

Gordon, Hugh            settler

Gray Bros.                  farmers

Harrison, Wm.            labourer

Jones, Mrs.

Kauri Timber Company.

McMillan, Donald

McMillan, Neil.          saw doctor

Menzies, Wltr,            farmer

Osborne, Hy.              Fisherman

Ravenhill, Rich’d       p.m. (postmaster)

Sanson, Norm L.        farmer

Wouldes, Jno.            Contr

Wouldes, Thos.          Miner

 

1927

Whangaparapara

Aikman, Adam,          farmer

Baker, J.                      bushman

Bearsley, J.                  bushman

Betridge, J. E. 

Billing, C.                    bushman

Billing, W.                   bushman

Brown, G.                    bushman

Campbell, E.                bushman

Carlson, Martin B.       bushman

Carr, F. H.                    teacher

Cheeseman, H.             clerk

Codlin, C.                    bushman

Cooper, J.                    engine driver

Cope, Henry

Davenport, Henry       bush mgr.

Davis, F                       bushman

Dunn, P.T.                   bushman

Edmous, E.                  bushman

Forrest, J.                    bushman

Gascoine, G. S.           storekpr

Gibbons, F.W.            bushman

Gibbons, Roy             contractor

Goodall, B.                 bushman

Harrison, E.                engine driver

Harrison, W.

Hill, W.                      bushman

Hooper, Fredk            bushman

Jones, W.                   bushman

Kercich, J.                 bushman

Kilgour, W.               driver

Leith, W.A.                bushman

Mack, J.                     bushman

Monaghn, W.             bushman

Ngapo, R.                   bushman

Norton, H.                  platelayer

Ogilvie, L.                  bushman

O’Neill, J.                   contractor

Osborne, Harry           builder

Ravenhill, Richd.        Postmast.

Reece, W.                    bushman

Rouser, J.J.                  bushman

Russell, H.                   bushman

Schischka, A.              bushman

Smythe, F.                   bushman

Treadwell, J.                bushman

Turnwald, John           bushman

Warmington, J.           engine driv.

Wright, Charles           cook

Wynyard, N.W.           bushman

Wynyard, P.                bushman

 
 
 

Whangaparapara wharf, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library,Reference Number: 1/2-000086-G

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057 (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=19074).

 

 

Kauri Timber Company mill, Whangaparapara Harbour, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference Number: 1/2-000087-G

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057  (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=36334).

 

Group on a tennis court at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference Number: 1/2-000102-G

Group on a tennis court at Whangaparapara, circa 1910. Photograph probably taken by William A Price.

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057  (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=17175).

 

Harbour, wharf and ships at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Photograph probably taken by William A Price.vReference Number: 1/2-000130-G

Harbour, wharf and ships at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, circa 1910. The Kauri Company mill manager's house is on the point.

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057 (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=17176).

Harbour, wharf and ships at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Reference Number: 1/2-000131-G

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057  (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=42241).

 

Whangaparapara Harbour, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910s]

Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference Number: 1/2-001853-G (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=49311).

View looking down at the wharf and across to the entrance of Whangaparapara Harbour. There is a yacht making its way to the heads and another moored in the bay. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s.

Part of: Price, William Archer, d 1948 :Collection of post card negatives, Reference Number PAColl-3057

 

K T Co Sawmill and wharf, Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1910]

Photographer unidentified., Reference Number: PAColl-5521-06

K T Co sawmill and wharf, Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, circa 1910.

Part of: Young, L R: Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry, Reference Number PAColl-5521 (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=19079).

 

 

 
 Deck of a ferry, Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, 1930s

Reference Number: PAColl-0343-01

Part of: Fellows, P :Photographs of Great Barrier Island in the 1930s, Photographer unidentified. Reference Number PAColl-0343 http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=36340).

 

 

 

 

Price, William Archer, d 1948 : Sailing ship Rangi at Whangaparapara Harbour, Great Barrier Island, unloading logs for the Whangaparapara mill, [ca 1910]

  Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910. Reference Number: PAColl-5521-08

Part of: Young, L R: Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry, Reference Number PAColl-5521  (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=24076).


 

 

K T Co Sawmill's tram line at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, between 1909-1914

Photographer unidentified. Reference Number: PAColl-5521-09

 Part of: Young, L R: Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry, Reference Number PAColl-5521   (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=25113).

 

Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, showing the tramline used for transporting timber, ca 1910

Photographer unidentified. Reference Number: PAColl-5521-15

Scene by the harbour at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, circa 1910. Shows the end of the timber tramline which ran to Kaiarara.

 Part of: Young, L R: Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry, Reference Number PAColl-5521   (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=36335).

S S Beulah at Whangaparapara mill wharf, Great Barrier Island, [ca 1909-1910]

Photographer unidentified. Reference Number: PAColl-6181-50

 Part of: Young, L R: Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry, Reference Number PAColl-5521   (http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=17183).

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gasgoines Store Whangaparapara.

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See one of the anchors of the SS Wiltshire on the front lawn of the Great Barrier Lodge at Whangaparapara.

 

Subpages (1): Whaling Station Whangaparapara 1957-61