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T. W. Downes on the Whanganui River

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T. W. Downes on the Whanganui River

T. W. Downes, who wrote extensively about the Whanganui River and worked for the Wanganui River Trust for many years, is third from the left in this group of men on one of Hatrick and Company’s motorised canoes in the early 1920s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, F. J. Denton Collection

Reference: 1/1-000494;G

by Frank J. Denton

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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Cultural life, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19093/t-w-downes-on-the-whanganui-river (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.