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Story: Whanganui region

Victoria Avenue, Whanganui, 1920s

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Victoria Avenue, Whanganui, 1920s

By the 1920s, Whanganui had become a modern city. Victoria Avenue, its heart, was busy with cars and trams, and lined with shops and a landmark post office building and clock tower.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

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by Sydney Charles Smith

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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Forging a region, 1870s–1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19034/victoria-avenue-whanganui-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.