New Zealand - Manawatu - Whanganui - Wanganui, including Ridgway Street and the shop of F J Jones - 1880s - 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 --------------------- Image source: Wanganui, including Ridgway Street and the shop of F J Jones. Harding, William James, 1826-1899 :Negatives of Wanganui district. Ref: 1/2-008364-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23249532 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23249532