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1984 results. Displaying results 801 - 880.

Name/title	Maker	Production date	Description
Memorial Plaque (medallion)		1914-1919	Circular bronze plaque. Features an image of Britannia holding a trident and standing with a lion. The designer's initials, E.CR.P., appear above the front paw. In her outstretched left hand Britannia holds an olive wreath above the rectangular tablet bearing the name Frederick Neville Houston cast in raised letters. Below the name tablet, to the right of the lion, is an oak spray with acorns. Two dolphins swim around Britannia, symbolizing Britain's sea power, and at the bottom a second lion is tearing apart the German eagle. Around the picture the legend reads (in capitals) "He died for freedom and honour". The reverse is blank.
Partial Moa Skeleton		Post 1891	Partial moa skeleton known as the Flett Moa. According to the Diatoms to Database book, page 69-70, this specimen is not the original Flett Moa. The Flett Moa was presented to the Oamaru Museum as a composite from the Te Raki swamp deposit after 1891. Notes in the archive indicate this moa was previously identified as a Euryapteryx type.
Moeraki Boulder			Small Moeraki boulder. Moeraki boulders are concretions. They are known in te reo Maori as Te Kaihinaki. This specimen may be from the Katiki Beach area, Otago.
New Zealand & Australian Land Company Limited Station Managers		1890s?	New Zealand and Australian Land Co. Ltd. Station Managers.
Ure family arriving at Kurow with wool from Morven Hills Station	Chase F J & Co	1900	Five bullock teams with loaded wool carts at Kurow. Cart drivers, members of the Ure family, standing beside carts, dog at the side of the road.
Oamaru Harbour Normanby Wharf [?]		Circa 1910	At Normanby Wharf (?), c. 1910. People on board ship at wharf. Men women children and a dog on the wharf. Cape Wanbrow in background.
The Pirates of Penzance	Sargeant, Albert	Nov 1883	Miss Nellie Hardy as Mabel in the Pirates of Penzance, by the Oamaru Amateur Opera Company at the Public Hall, November 27th and 28th 1883.
Loudon family grave		1868	Headstone Oamaru Old Cemetery. Block 2 Plot 5. "Robert and Annie Loudon and son James Swept away by flood and drowned at Totara 3 Feb 1868"
First Arbor Day Oamaru 1893		1893	First Arbor Day Oamaru 1893. First Oamaru Post Office (1864). Second Oamaru Post Office (1884).
Pirates of Penzance	Sargeant, Albert	Nov 1883	Cast members of The Pirates of Penzance by the Oamaru Amateur Opera Company at the Public Hall, November 27th and 28th 1883
First Oamaru Post Office, built 1864.		Circa 1864	First Oamaru Post Office, built 1864.
Oamaru view. Old Tyne Street Gardens	Mahan & Co (estab. 1895, closed 1899)	1880s	Old Tyne Street Gardens, late 1880s. Columba Church. Emmanuel Church. Man with cow
R Cunningham & Co, Grain Merchants; Connell & Clowes, Auctioneers. Henry Connell Land & Estate Agent. Tyne Street, Oamaru.		1862	R Cunningham & Co, Grain Merchants; Connell & Clowes, Auctioneers. Henry Connell Land & Estate Agent. Tyne Street, Oamaru. Premises built by Henry France in 1862. Later became a post office until 1864. Then it was occupied by P Cunningham, a private merchant. Other tenants were Henry Connell and partner Clowes. This building was still standing in 1961.
Meek's Elevator, c.1890.		Pre 1920	Meek's Elevator, c.1890. Built 1882-83. Damaged by fire, 1920. At right is the store built by Connell and Clowes in 1881. Man sitting on bank of the Oamaru Creek.
Oamaru from Wharfe Street facing north		Circa 1872	View facing north from Wharfe Street, 1872. St Luke's Church. Anderson, Oil Colour. First St Paul's Presbyterian Church. Thames Street.
Crown Flour Mill (Meeks)		1880s	Crown flour Mill, taken from house on Itchen Street. Photograph of a photo pinned to boards. Prior to 1883 - Bank of New South Wales not built
Craig Fountain, Oamaru Public Gardens		Post 1914	Craig Fountain Oamaru Gardens JMB 10. "By the will of the late Mr James Craig a sum of L500 was bequeathed for the purposes of erecting a fountain. The Council supplied the funds for providing a large basin, and the fountain was officially set in action on April 13 [1914] on the occasion of a great Floral Fete". (Ref: McDonald, 1940:197.) The drinking fountains were subsequently relocated.
Tees Street Shops		1882	Tees Street shops, late 1882. Geo. R Taylor, Importer and General Merchant. Watson and McIntosh, Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers, Plumbers and Tinsmiths. St Luke's Church. Photo A Sargeant
Craig Fountain, Oamaru Public Gardens		Post 1914	Children riding bicycles around Craig Fountain. Another boy is standing on the fountain's edge with his foot on the drinking fountain, two women with a baby are sitting on a park bench at left.
Hodge & Jones Saddlers and Harness Makers. Oamaru Mail Office Tyne Street		1900	Two men standing in front of Hodge and Jones Saddler and Harness Maker. Oamaru Mail west Tyne Street. A Sargeant Photo printed bottom left corner

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