

This scene by J. Permin, entitled A Misty Morning, Dunedin, won first prize in the recent University bazaar photographic competition. : 100 years ago: August 1909
This scene by J. Permin, entitled A Misty Morning, Dunedin, won first prize in the recent University bazaar photographic competition. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The Avon, Christchurch, at Fendalton. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The Avon, Christchurch, at Fendalton. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A successful flying machine: M. Bleriot's monoplane which crossed from France to England in 33 minutes. : 100 years ago: August 1909
A successful flying machine: M. Bleriot's monoplane which crossed from France to England in 33 minutes. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The front runners taking the brush fence in the straight for the first time during the Grand National Steeplechase run by the Canterbury Jockey Club at Christchurch. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The front runners taking the brush fence in the straight for the first time during the Grand National Steeplechase run by the Canterbury Jockey Club at Christchurch. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The New Zealand Sugar Refining Company's works at Chelsea, Auckland. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The New Zealand Sugar Refining Company's works at Chelsea, Auckland. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Two of the early miners of Blue Spur, Messrs John Ponsonby and David McIntosh, engaged in sawing wood in a friendly way for a neighbour. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Two of the early miners of Blue Spur, Messrs John Ponsonby and David McIntosh, engaged in sawing wood in a friendly way for a neighbour. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A moveable exercising pen for the babies. This pen is an idea of Dr Truby King's. The babies get exercise without any danger from draught. The pen can be folded up, and so easily moved about. : 100 years ago: August 1909
A moveable exercising pen for the babies. This pen is an idea of Dr Truby King's. The babies get exercise without any danger from draught. The pen can be folded up, and so easily moved about. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A Stewart Island scene looking across halfmoon Bay. Photo by F E Duncan. : 100 years ago: August 1909
A Stewart Island scene looking across halfmoon Bay. Photo by F E Duncan. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Some of the 600 scholars of Dunedin schools who visited the British second class protected cruiser, H.M.S. Encounter, at Port Chalmers on Saturday August 7. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Some of the 600 scholars of Dunedin schools who visited the British second class protected cruiser, H.M.S. Encounter, at Port Chalmers on Saturday August 7. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Lake Ella, Mount Elliott and the Jervois Glacier from the top of McKinnon Pass on the Milford Track. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Lake Ella, Mount Elliott and the Jervois Glacier from the top of McKinnon Pass on the Milford Track. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Karitane babies on their way to bed with (from left to right): Nurses Hancock, Grey, Mitchell, Jacobs and McKenzie. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Karitane babies on their way to bed with (from left to right): Nurses Hancock, Grey, Mitchell, Jacobs and McKenzie. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Mr G. P. Keddell, Dunedin, who won the 120 and 440 yards hurdles at the Australasian amateur athletics championships at Brisbane. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Mr G. P. Keddell, Dunedin, who won the 120 and 440 yards hurdles at the Australasian amateur athletics championships at Brisbane. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Ladies' evening at the Orphans' Musical Club, Dunedin. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Ladies' evening at the Orphans' Musical Club, Dunedin. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Mintaro Hut on the Te Anau - Milford track. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Mintaro Hut on the Te Anau - Milford track. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Quinton or Beech huts, Sutherland Falls, on the Te Anau-Milford track. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Quinton or Beech huts, Sutherland Falls, on the Te Anau-Milford track. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Miss Scaife, representing the Union Steam Ship Company, in the dress designed by Miss Lawrence of the D.I.C., won first prize in the University bazaar poster competition. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Miss Scaife, representing the Union Steam Ship Company, in the dress designed by Miss Lawrence of the D.I.C., won first prize in the University bazaar poster competition. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Nasongo, a Fijian mountain village, situated in a grove of coconut palms, 2500ft above sea level. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Nasongo, a Fijian mountain village, situated in a grove of coconut palms, 2500ft above sea level. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A view from the Green Island end of the new Caversham tunnel in connection with the duplication of the railway line to Mosgiel. : 100 years ago: August 1909
A view from the Green Island end of the new Caversham tunnel in connection with the duplication of the railway line to Mosgiel. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The coal mining industry: View of the open face at Coal Creek, Roxburgh, Otago. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The coal mining industry: View of the open face at Coal Creek, Roxburgh, Otago. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The Redwood Ramblers: the first Dunedin young ladies' team of harriers, pictured at Normanby on the occasion of a recent run from Knox Church to Sawyer's Bay. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The Redwood Ramblers: the first Dunedin young ladies' team of harriers, pictured at Normanby on the occasion of a recent run from Knox Church to Sawyer's Bay. : 100 years ago: August 1909


Students in the antique room of the Otago School of Art. : 100 years ago: August 1909
Students in the antique room of the Otago School of Art. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The Otago University School of Mines. The building on the left, from the NZ and South Seas Exhibition, was the old school and the one at right is the new school, designed by Mr Anscombe, architect, Dunedin. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The Otago University School of Mines. The building on the left, from the NZ and South Seas Exhibition, was the old school and the one at right is the new school, designed by Mr Anscombe, architect, Dunedin. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The crowd at the opening of the St Clair Golf Club's new pavilion on August 21, 1909. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The crowd at the opening of the St Clair Golf Club's new pavilion on August 21, 1909. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A view of the Neck between Lakes Hawea and Wanaka. : 100 years ago: August 1909
A view of the Neck between Lakes Hawea and Wanaka. : 100 years ago: August 1909


The Waihi gold mining company's battery at Waikino, one of several mining operations in the districts around Thames. : 100 years ago: August 1909
The Waihi gold mining company's battery at Waikino, one of several mining operations in the districts around Thames. : 100 years ago: August 1909


In the bush at Whakatane, Bay of Plenty: a bullock team with a load of logs ready to start for Waimana sawmill. : 100 years ago: August 1909
In the bush at Whakatane, Bay of Plenty: a bullock team with a load of logs ready to start for Waimana sawmill. : 100 years ago: August 1909


A view from St Kilda showing the results of the Ocean Beach Domain Board's reclamation work. For some years prior to 1900 St Kilda was liable at any spring tide to be flooded by sea water. It is now protected by this bank of sand and marram grass,... : 100 years ago: August 1909
A view from St Kilda showing the results of the Ocean Beach Domain Board's reclamation work. For some years prior to 1900 St Kilda was liable at any spring tide to be flooded by sea water. It is now protected by this bank of sand and marram grass,... : 100 years ago: August 1909
100 years ago: August 1909
Photos from the archives of the Otago Witness, August 1909. Photo prints available from otagoimages. co. nz.
