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Image: Obelisk to mark the position of the last spike driven on the North Island Main Trunk Line, at Manganui a te Ao, in November 1908. ATLIB 288494

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Description: Obelisk at Manganui o te Ao, with inscription "This obelisk is erected opposite the spot where the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Ward ... Premier of the Dominion drove the last spike of the North Island Main Trunk Ry on the 6th November 1908. Hon Wm Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works and Railways". Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1921.
Title: Obelisk to mark the position of the last spike driven on the North Island Main Trunk Line, at Manganui a te Ao, in November 1908. ATLIB 288494
Credit: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.288494
Author: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949
Permission: Any publication must be accompanied by the credit "Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library"
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License: Public domain
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