100 years ago: May 1910

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A canvas home on the Catlins railway works. An aeroplane exhibition at Olympia, London. A favourite sea coast resort south of Dunedin: Brighton lagoon, looking north-east. A snapshot near Broad Bay, with Harbour Cone in the background. Canvas town: homes of the men employed on the Catlins Railway construction works. Brigade troops and the First Otago Rifle Battalion in Dowling Street for the memorial church parade for King Edward VII on May 15. Halley's Comet, as seen from Belleknowes, Dunedin on May 12, 1910. Highland cattle on Mt Grand, near Dunedin. An industrious mutton-birder prepares birds for packing. Preparing kelp bags for the storage of mutton-birds. After the fire which destroyed Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Company's store at Kelso (later known as Wrightsons). A birds-eye view of Lawrence. The old Middle District school, Dunedin, in Stuart St, 42 years ago, which was replaced by the Arthur Street school. Mr Meiklejohn's farm house at North Taieri, close to the Silverstream bridge. Otago Harbour from the Peninsula near Portobello. Mr McKay's nine-horse team at Lawrence with a waggon carrying 40 bales of wool from Roxburgh. The township at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island. The open face at Messrs C.P Sleeman and Co's coal pit near Mataura. The crowd in the Octagon listening to the Mayor, Mr Thos. Cole, read the proclamation of George V as the new King. A reaper at work during harvesting near Lake Hayes, Central Otago. The Routeburn Valley, from the Lake Harris track. The motor sledge made for Captain Robert Falcon Scott by the Wolseley Motor Car Company, for use on his expedition to the South Pole. Boy Scouts on parade in Cumberland Street, Dunedin, in readiness for the memorial service for King Edward VII in St Matthew's Church on May 15. On the Portobello Road, Otago Peninsula: going over the hill from Smith's Bay into Broad Bay. A waggoner on the Lawrence-Beaumont road. A pick and shovel team employed in excavating a cutting on the Catlins River railway works.
 

These photos from the Otago Witness were first published during May 1910. Prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

 

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