Invercargill City
Centenary - Tuesday 2 March
1971 - a Souvenir Edition of the Southland Times
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p1 - Front page
p2 - From Primitive Bush Village to Modern City - 100 years
of Invercargill as a Municipality
photos - Invercargill's
earliest eccentrics - the Black Doctor - a hut built by a
man named Williams a squatter
p3 - full page of photos
-
Civic admin
block, Kelvin Hotel, Coldstream swimming
pool, Invercargill
Airport, Menzies
building, Queens Park tea kiosk,
1st
Presbyterian Church, Roman Catholic Bascillica,
Anderson Park Art gallery, Kew Hospital.
p4 - Frustrated by lack of money
photo - Railway station, oldest in New Zealand
advert -
Scoullar & Chisholm Ltd,
p5 - Goats problem in early days -
advert - New Zealand Express Co.
(Invercargill) Ltd. - The Southland Co-op
Phosphate Co.Ltd.
p6 - Travel made difficult on muddy roads
- Invasion of City reserves
photo - Waikiwi Bush
Hotel showing condition of road
advert -
Schroeders Delicatessen - Craigs printing
Co Ltd.
p7 - full page ad
H & J.
Smiths
p8 - Telegraph Service came early to Invercargill
photo - Tay st - the
poles are a reminder that Invercargill had a telegraph communication
with Bluff as early as February 1864
advert - Freshbake, bakers of fine bread, buns,
pies and cake.
p9 - Fourth Green Belt disappeared - Salvation Army
under Fire -
adverts - William
Todd and Co Ltd. - A.N.Z.Bank.
p10 - Council flats for Elderly -
photo - flats in Avenal
st.
adverts- NMA in Invercargill since 1878
- Watts & Grieve Ltd, licensed motor
vehicle dealers.
p11 - Settlers faced Sanitation problems -
photo - part of the
network of modern services
adverts - The Commercial Bank of Australia
- J.E.Watson & Co Ltd. stock and station agents etc
p12 - Communications by Sea, Rail and Air
- Ship broke at Jetty
- Southland in 1862 - Council
Concern over Police Force.
advert - Southland Hospital Board
- Reins, jewellers.
p13 - Land reclaimed from Estuary -
photos - shipe berthed
at jetty in the Waihopai estuary - Robert Murie,
Queens Park where Murie gave exhibitions with his balloon.
advert - Port of Bluff, with photos.
p14 & 15 - middle pages - all photos
-
photos - Dee st in
1920's - Dee st East side
1865, Dee st East side
1912, Dee st East side 1971
p16 - Mayor's Record of Service -
Photo - Mr
N.L.Watson, OBE
adverts - The Para Rubber Co. a brief
history - Bank of New South Wales.
p17 - Colour Bar during Depression - First Steps to Form
City Airport, May 1934
photo - 1860 Mr W. Preston's shop in
Tay st.
adverts -
Macalisters Ltd, General engineers and manufacturers
- Southland Building and Investment Society.
p19 - Early Urban Trouble - 18 Hotels in City
in 1884 - Mana of Old Queen (Victoria)
photo - Princess Hotel in Dee
st,
advert -
Invercargill Licensing Trust.
p20 - Historic Old Building - in Kelvin st, Allan's
Hall, - How the Borough Began -
photo - one of the
oldest buildings in Invercargill.
adverts
- Wright Stephenson, in the Crescent since 1896
- Calder Mackay
p21 - Minerva Saved - Drainage Problems
photo - one of the
engines imported from Victoria for the wooden railway between
Invercargill and Makarewa
advert - Southland Farmers Co-op
Association Ltd.
p22 - advert whole page - New Zealand Aluminium
Smelters Ltd.
p23 - Early Vice-Regal visits to the City -
photo - 1st Govenor to
visit was Sir George Grey in 1867 - Council and
Golf
adverts
- Southland Savings Bank - Mathesons Ltd.
p24 - The Beginnings of Tay Street
photos - Invercargill's
1st fire station Tay st - North side of
Tay st in 1861 destroyed in 1865 by fire
advert - Broad Smalls, household furnishing
p25 - Turnbull Thomson Selected Site -
photo - John Turnbull
Thomson
adverts - South British -
Butterfields, the friendly firm for 103 years
p26 - Pre-Adamites of Southland
photo - West side of
Dee st in late 1860's early 1870's Sloan's Theatre, later
Theatre Royal
adverts
- N.Z.I. - George Poole and Sons
Ltd. nearly 70 years in craftmanship
p27 - Fire Brigade problems in the early days
photo - Invercargill's
central fire station today
adverts - Briscoe's Ltd - B.N.Z.
- A.Russell & Co.
p28 - photo -
aerial view of part of Invercargill's central business area
advert
- The Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Export Co. Ltd.
Beverley Evans
Christchurch NZ
24 January 2011
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