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This photograph is of three nicely dressed ladies in hats and one child perched on one of the cannons in the Square. Cannons were purchased by the Government in 1879 and installed at Fort Ngahauranga overlooking Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour. The cannons were never fired for military purposes and were obsolete by 1900. Two of these cannons were acquired by the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1909 for display in the Square to the delight of many children. By 1939, the Council decided the cannons had outlived their usefulness and sold them to a scrap dealer who cut up the steel undercarriages and buried the barrels in an Albert Street property. See Research File A175/72/2 in the Ian Matheson City Archives for more information.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2014N_Sq428_008726
Title
Women Pose on one of the Square Cannons
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sq 428
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
1920 to 1925

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

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cannon,
dress,
fashion,
people,
play,
the square,
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