Kōrero: Manawatū and Horowhenua places

A Manawatū sketch

A Manawatū sketch

Artist Edith Stanway Halcombe lived at Feilding in the 1870s. Her husband Arthur Halcombe was agent for the settlement of the Manchester block between the Rangitīkei and the Ruahine ranges. In a report to the superintendent of Wellington province on 7 May 1874, Halcombe referred to an accompanying ‘series of sketches . . . made a week ago by Mrs Halcombe [that] show the progress that has been made in the settlement’. This view was probably drawn by her a few years later, when the railway was operational. It is taken from the township of Halcombe, which was laid out 15 kilometres north-west of Feilding.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: A-226-007
Lithograph by Edith Stanway Halcombe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon, 'Manawatū and Horowhenua places - Halcombe to Ashhurst', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/9412/a-manawatu-sketch (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, updated 22 Apr 2015