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Post #580976 by Club Nouméa on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 5:37 AM
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Part 7: Whanganui River Postcards As a prelude to my as yet unscheduled trip up the Whanganui River Road, here are a few postcards showing what the river looked like in the late 19th century. A supposedly happy chief standing outside a whare:
How the upper crust lived: Victorian tropical décor at Pipiriki House, described as being on "New Zealand's Rhine":
And just to add a bit of colour:
The caption reads "River below Pipiriki". CN
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