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
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
The 27-km line between Invercargill and the port at Bluff, built by the Southland Provincial Council, was the colony’s third public railway.
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 .
A huge crowd in the main street of Invercargill as the royal entourage arrives at the Grand Hotel, 28 January 1954.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: F 42447 1/2
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.