South Invercargill war memorial, 2008.
Image: Bruce Cavanagh, 2008
Find out more about the people listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database
Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff
The 27-km line between Invercargill and the port at Bluff, built by the Southland Provincial Council, was the colony’s third public railway.
Barricade at Invercargill, 1981 Springbok Tour
The original Evening Post caption reads: 'While the Springboks played Southland at Invercargill's Rugby Park on Saturday, a line of police, ordered to watch the crowd and not the game, man a barricade of barbed wire ringing the playing field. The wire was laid on Friday by soldiers against a possible invasion of the ground by demonstrators.' Photographed on 8 August 1981 by Stuart Menzies and printed in the Evening Post on 10 August 1981.
Southland lost the game 22-6. See the Tour schedule maps for more information .
Invercargill cenotaph
Invercargill cenotaph, c1986.
Invercargill reception for Royal couple, 1954
A huge crowd in the main street of Invercargill as the royal entourage arrives at the Grand Hotel, 28 January 1954.
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Invercargill South African War memorial
The South African War Memorial at Invercargill in c1986. Designed by Newton Vane, the monument has a drinking fountain, but the clock was added later.
