Ruined Napier City Landscape

Looking across devastation of Napier from Bluff Hill after 3 February 1931 earthquake

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Description

Signs on buildings –

“H.B. MOTOR COMPANY LTD [Dickens and Dalton Streets]

DALGETY’S

HUMPHRIES

H.B. MOTORS.

CLUB CHAMBERS [Cosmopolitan, Emerson Street]

NORTHES’ COAL   WOOD AND YARDS [top centre]

HENRY WILLIAMS AND SONS LTD [top left, Hastings Street]”

Part of Public Trust Office on left in Dalton Street; Central Hotel empty corner site
E and D Building to left of Dalton Street
Bullivant and Merrick painters; Forresters Hall behind; both Dickens Street
Municipal Theatre bottom left

Alexander Lavery (1863-1940) took photos of Hawke’s Bay from the early 1900s to 1940

Location

Napier

Format of the original

Glass plate negative

Date published

February 1931

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Accession number

612392

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