Crowds on Onehunga Wharf as Auckland Volunteers board the "Rotoiti" on 9 October 1899, bound for Wellington and ultimately the Boer War
AWNS-18991913-2-3, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Beattie and Sanderson photographers
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"Mapourika" laden with troops from the Auckland 5th Contingent preparing to leave Onehunga for the Boer War on 22 March, 1900
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"Ngapuhi" steaming past Waikowhai Bay en route to New Plymouth in late February 1902
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A number of onlookers watch a consignment of butter being loaded aboard a ship at Onehunga in 1905 for Wellington, and ultimately transhipment to London. The first butter shipments from NZ were sourced from Ambury Farm in Mangere.
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"Rosamund", "Rarawa", "Takapuna" and "Kia Ora" fill the southern berths at Onehunga on a busy day at the wharf on 20 July 1905
AWNS-19050720-12-3 Talma Studios photographers
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"Squall", "Murital" and "Ohinemuri" (obscured) berthed on the northern side of a busy Onehunga Wharf on 20 July 1905
AWNS-19050720-12-1 Talma Studios, photographers
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Couldn't imagine Jacinda Ardern doing this today, but on 3 December 1907, Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward disembarks off a steamer at Onehunga before boarding a train into the city
AWNS-19071212-10-2, Oliver and Walker photography
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16,500 cases of butter - a record consignment - being loaded at Onehunga Wharf on 12 December 1908, bound for the UK market.
AWNS-19081217-14-2
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This is the buoy to which the ships are tethered while loading their cargoes of slurry at Kawhia's Taharoa Ironsand Works at Kawhia. The buoy was delivered to Onehunga in 1972 for towing down the coast to its final resting place.
JTD-19G-04662, J.T. Diamond photographer
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Erection of the two 750 ton cement silos is under way in March 1970, next to the existing 2200 ton silos with Guardian Cement branding. "Aranui" is the ship in the background.
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"Matai", "Hauturu" and "Hokianga" alongside on a pristine day in 1935
957-69, NZ Herald photography
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The view from Hillsborough Cemetery across to Onehunga in 1982, with "Union Nelson" alongside. Also visible are Ngarango Otainui Island, the Otahuhu A power station and the nearly completed Mangere Bridge
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