New Zealand - Opotiki
- Church Street, Opotiki
- View looking down Church to the intersection with Main Street (now Elliot Street).
- Circa 1920s
Opotiki
- Opotiki is a small town in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
- Opotiki has a large Maori population that exceeds 50%, making it one of the few towns in New Zealand to be predominantly populated by Maori.
- When peace eventually came to the district, most of the cultivable land had been taken by British settlers and was converted to sheep and cattle (later dairy) farming.
- The district lost men to the two World Wars, but an even greater blow was the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 which devastated small villages.
(Reference: Wikipedia)
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Image source: Church Street, Opotiki. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-001305-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23022487
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23022487 #opotiki