New Zealand - Opotiki - Looking along Church Street, Opotiki showing (from the left) the Mechanics Institute, F J Short, dentist, a Booking Office sign, a garage sign and (from the extreme right) the Royal Hotel, J A Dalgety, stationers, an Auckland Star sign, with pedestrians and cars in the street - by Radcliffe, Frederick George - Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 35-R2168 Opotiki - Opotiki is a small town in the eastern Bay of Plenty. - Opotiki has a large Māori population that exceeds 50%, making it one of the few towns in New Zealand to be predominantly populated by Māori. - 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 Image source: - Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 35-R2168 “Opotiki - Looking along Church Street” by Radcliffe, Frederick George is licensed under CC BY