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Kōrero: Manawatū and Horowhenua region

Hōkio Beach

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Hōkio Beach

These children are playing at Hōkio, near Levin, in 1909. The advent of the motor car around this time made beach excursions much more practicable than they had been.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/4-023248; G

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 region – Leisure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9506/hokio-beach (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 April 2015.