New Zealand - Whanganui - Looking up Victoria Avenue, Wanganui - Circa 1870s - Studio of William James Harding 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: Looking up Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. Harding, William James, 1826-1899 :Negatives of Wanganui district. Ref: 1/1-000256-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22420829 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22420829