New Zealand - Duke Street, Cambridge
- Duke Street, Cambridge, circa 1922, with the Central Hotel (proprietor A. Underwood) centre left. Business premises of Wells Furnishing Warehouse and a bookseller & stationer are on the right.
- Photographed by William Archer Price
- circa 1922
Cambridge
- Prior to the arrival of Europeans, there were a number of Maori pin the vicinity of what would become Cambridge. In the 1850s missionaries and farmers from Britain settled in the area and introduced modern farming practices to local Maori, helping them set up two flour mills and importing grinding wheels from England and France. During the 1850s wheat was a profitable crop but when merchants in Auckland began purchasing cheaper grain from Australia the market went into decline.
- The European town of Cambridge was established when the 3rd Regiment of the Waikato Militia were settled there in 1864 following the Invasion of the Waikato. The town was named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army at the time.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_New_Zealand)
Image source: Duke Street, Cambridge, circa 1920s. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-000076-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22327509 #waikatoother