FROM THE ARCHIVE: Views of South Taranaki (Hawera, Opunake, Eltham and Inglewood) and Mt Egmont [Mt Taranaki] c. 1927- 1929. Published by E. E. Wells, Cycle Dealer, corner of High and Victoria Streets, Hawera.
(New Zealand)
This booklet contains photographs and business advertisements providing a valuable historic record of these areas.
Ernest Edward Wells had moved from Patea to Hawera in 1917. In Patea he had had a photographic studio and cycle shop in Oxford Street, but gave up the photographic side of the business when he moved to Hawera.
His son Robert E. Wells became one of New Zealand's leading landscape photographers in his later years. Historical/ Historic/History