Old Temuka, South Canterbury
POST=CARDS
Otago Daily Times 31 January 1906
A remarkable instance of the ingenuity of postal officials was recently
found in the delivery of a post-card at Temuka (says the Lyttelton
Times). The card was posted in Christchurch, but the sender forgot to
address it, and the only indication it bore as to its intended
destination was the introductory ''Dear Myrtle'' and the postscript
(ladies write postscripts even on post-cards). ''Please bring back with
you two post-card views of Temuka.'' The postal officials correctly
surmised that the card was to go to a young lady named Myrtle then
presumably staying in Temuka. The card was safely delivered about a mile
from the Temuka post office on the day after it was posted in
Christchurch.
On the back of the card is 'Holwell Series' and
other than 'Printed in Britain' gives no other info. Probably 1918.
Memorial Gates, King St.
Winchester Bridge, Post Office
Council Chambers, Courthouse, Technical School, R C Church, Presbyterian Church,
Post Office
Publisher:- Gordon Series. Photographer:- E T
Main St. Temuka, looking South. Another
on the Auckland City Library website.
Post Office, Temuka, 1918 Howell Series
Muir & Moodie Postcards
Post Office, Temuka
High and Primary Schools, Temuka
Maori School &
Meeting House
another photo
Temuka Railway Station on the right the goods shed on the left.
Looking from the opposite direction
Pioneer Obelisk, Domain, Temuka
Temuka is on the Canterbury Plains. A W. Ferrier photograph.