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Postcard of a boy standing beside a cannon, one of two bought to Palmerston North in 1909, being surplus equipment of the Defence Department. This one is in the quadrant near Broadway and the other was placed by the lakelet. Both cannons were removed and scrapped during the 1940s.

Identification

Object type
Postcard
Date
circa 1910
Digitisation ID
2007N_Sq147_SQU_0465
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Coolstore

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Palmerston North

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the square,
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