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Shell decoration

Shell decoration

The owners of ‘shell wonderland’ at Mangaweka, Nola and Berry Edwards, proudly display their 1937 Austin 10 decorated with 27,000 shells.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1985/1451/16

by Ross Giblin

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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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – Shell collecting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8043/shell-decoration (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.

Comments

Vera Edwards
27 April 2012
You have the name wrong. These are my Grandparents - I am one of the few people who actually got to ride in that car. You got Nola's name right but my Grandfather's name wrong. His full name was William Berry Edwards and if you want to check he is buried in Mangaweka Cemetery (he is in the corner of the sheep paddock). The record is available online. They were wonderful Grandparents.