More Info →"All Black Back at Work"

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 July, 1959. "Back at work this morning at the desk of the joinery factory he owns in partnership, B. E. L. Finlay, Manawatu's sole All Black for the first New Zealand Test team to meet the British Isles Rugby tourists at Carisbrook, Dunedin, is caught by the "Manawatu Standard" camera. Alongside him is the "hot" telephone which still rings constantly bearing messages of congratulations."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

July 6, 1959

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_015232

Format

B&W negative