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Sailing canoes

Sailing canoes

In Nelson, as in other New Zealand centres, there was a craze for sailing canoes. These are being sailed on the town’s Maitai River, around 1920.

About this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Nelson Jones Collection (PAColl-3051)
Reference: 1/2-036043; G
Photograph by Frederick Nelson Jones

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Harold Kidd. 'Sailing and windsurfing', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 24-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/sailing-and-windsurfing/2/2