This cricket team played in Mr Bell’s paddock and consisted of young men from many farms in the Kairanga district. Arthur Hobbs is standing third from right and Will Hobbs is standing second from right.

A class of pupils and teachers at Kairanga School. Kairanga School opened 10 December 1888 and is situated 10km from the centre of Palmerston North city on the corner of Rongotea Road and Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road

“Placing bees in position at Palmerston North September 1896”. John Hobbs, and his brother, Arthur, shifted 100 moveable apiary hives from the Wanganui district to Kairanga, siting them on Aorangi Road on land leased from Mr Carroll. By 1901 the brothers had 6 apiaries distributed throughout the Kairanga.

George Ernest Davey of Kairanga, 19 years of age, drowned in the Awapuni Lagoon 14 January 1894, while swimming there with his brothers William and Samuel. At the time he was working for Mr Foster-Pratt. George is buried at Terrace End cemetery.

A worker, in netted hat, stands in the middle of the apriary which was situated on Aorangi Road, north of the junction with the Longburn-Rongotea Road. The photograph is stated to have been taken in the early autumn.

Workmen with cart and horses on dirt road, believed to be the Longburn-Rongotea Road. The very muddy conditions of the horses indicats something of the condition of the roads in the Manawatu district at the turn of the century. The wagons appear to be carrying fence post or some other timber.

Kairanga School opened 10 December 1888. Donald Martin the Head Teacher is shown far right. Kairanga is approximately 9 kilometres from Palmerston North, past Longburn.