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Description

This postcard is inscribed, "To Mum with Happy Birthday. Greeting, your loving son Lancelot 8 of 7 of 1931" [8/7/1931]. It depicts one of the two Cannons that once graced The Square after being installed in 1909. This one is in the quadrant near the Broadway corner. The guns were originally purchased by the Government in 1879 and installed at Fort Ngahauranga overlooking Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour. They never fired a shot and were obsolete by 1900, when two were acquired by the Palmerston North Borough Council for display in the Square. By 1939, the Council decided the cannons had outlived their usefulness and sold them to a scrap dealer. The Grand Hotel, on the left side of the photograph, was built in 1906.

Tautuhi

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Postcard
Pākanga
Public Photograph Collection Sq 347
Date
circa 1930 to circa 1939
Tautuhi matihiko
2014N_Sq347_008707
E puritia ana ki
"Coolstore"

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Panorama of The Square from the top of the Kosy Theatre - circa 1940s
A View of the Lakelet
A View of The Square from All Saints Church
Square Gardens and Lakelet
Lakelet and Cannon in the Square
Square Gardens and The Lakelet
Panorama of The Square from the top of the Post Office - circa 1914-1920
A View of Te Marae o Hine / The Square
The Square, Palmerston North
Gardens in the Square
Corner of The Square and Church Street
Grand Hotel, corner of The Square and Church Street

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Ngā tūtohu
all saints,
grand hotel,
photographs,
the square,
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Panorama of The Square from the top of the Kosy Theatre - circa 1940s
A View of the Lakelet
A View of The Square from All Saints Church
Square Gardens and Lakelet
Lakelet and Cannon in the Square
Square Gardens and The Lakelet
Panorama of The Square from the top of the Post Office - circa 1914-1920
A View of Te Marae o Hine / The Square
The Square, Palmerston North
Gardens in the Square
Corner of The Square and Church Street
Grand Hotel, corner of The Square and Church Street