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Kōrero: Southland places

Invercargill looking south

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Invercargill looking south

A rugby match is in progress in August 1955, before a large crowd at Invercargill’s Rugby Park, which lies next to Southland Girls’ High School. The New River estuary is in the distance.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection

Reference: WA-39035

by Leo Lemuel White

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

David Grant, Southland places – Invercargill, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20351/invercargill-looking-south (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.