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Kōrero: Whanganui region

T. W. Downes on the Whanganui River

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T. W. Downes on the Whanganui River

T. W. Downes, who wrote extensively about the Whanganui River and worked for the Wanganui River Trust for many years, is third from the left in this group of men on one of Hatrick and Company’s motorised canoes in the early 1920s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, F. J. Denton Collection

Reference: 1/1-000494;G

by Frank J. Denton

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Cultural life, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19093/t-w-downes-on-the-whanganui-river (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Diana Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.