New Zealand - Whanganui - Whanganui City - 1960 - Whites Aviation photo Whanganui - A city on the west coast of the North Island - Part of the Manawatū-Whanganui regio - The ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other Whanganui Māori tribes - The New Zealand Company began to settle the area in 1840 - Much of Whanganui's economy relates directly to the prosperous farming hinterland - Officially designated a city until an administrative reorganisation in 1989 Reference: Wikipedia ------------------------- Image source: Whanganui City. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-52479. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/32973024 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/32973024