New Zealand - Greymouth
- Band rotunda
- The business premises of Duncan McLean, and of Tacon, Tansey & Company are visible
- circa 1907
- Photographer: William Archer Price
Band rotunda
- Greymouth chose to erect a band rotunda topped by a metal weathervane in Dixon Park.
- It was the only town in New Zealand to choose a functional and utilitarian memorial, which could be used for the playing of martial and patriotic music.
(Reference: read more at https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/greymouth-south-african-war-memorial)
Greymouth
- The largest town in the West Coast region
- The population of the whole Grey District is 13,750
- The Greymouth urban area had an estimated population of 9,700 (June 2018).
- Greymouth has a history of coal and gold mining.
- Later, forestry became a new staple industry.
- Fishing has long been important to the town.
- Greymouth was regularly flooded.
(Reference: Wikipedia)
Image source: Band rotunda at Greymouth. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-001312-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22799953
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