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Description

The sign on the side of the image reads, "Notice. Any Person riding a Bicycle, lighting a Fire, Cutting, Damaging or removing any Tree, Fern or Shrub or Structure within this Reserve, will be Prosecuted. By Order R N Keeling, Town Clerk. P.N. Borough Council." Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The bush walk was probably originally laid out c1900-1905.

Identification

Object type
Postcard
Archive
Postcard Collection
Date
circa 1907
Digitisation ID
2016P_Postcard59_013241
Format
Postcard
Held In
"Coolstore"

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Taxonomy

Tags
bench,
esplanade,
path,
plants,
trees,
victoria esplanade gardens,
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