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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Three handwritten letters, written by Tokomaru farmer Edward Griffiths to friends in England, have been donated to the Ian Matheson city archives. The letters describe the life of a settler farmer in Tokomaru in the late 1800's to early1900s.

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Object type
Image
Relation
Manawatū Standard
Date
June 5, 2021
Digitisation ID
2021Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_034707
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Manawatū

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dairy farming,
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farming,
immigrant,
letters,
manawatu standard,
memory lane,
tokomaru,
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