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Wanganui
(Place)

Also known as: Whanganui.

Mentioned in

A crowded window display in the new (1911) premises of bookseller and stationer Joseph Thomas Ward in Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, photographed by Frank J. Denton. Ward had earlier run a circulating library in Taupō Quay premises, established in 1896, but his biography in Volume 3 of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1996) reveals that his strongest abilities were as an astronomer of some note and also as a violinist. In the early 1990s Wanganui was home to New Zealand's earliest bookshop … A Waterfall at Papa ROA, on the Wanganui Masthead of the Wanganui Yeoman, 1885 Text Wanganui, 1886 Wanganui River Scenery

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